Broncos mulling big-name trade to recoup draft picks, cap room

February 16, 2023 ndowd

The Broncos have Sean Payton now but the team is still struggling with draft capital and cap room, but they are considering a big-name trade to fix it.

Overall, it has to be considered a successful offseason thus far for the Denver Broncos. Landing Sean Payton, even if they had to pay trade costs to make that deal happen, was absolutely massive for a franchise that, frankly, needs a lot of work after last season.

But the Payton trade coupled with the Russell Wilson trade and subsequent extension from last offseason have put the Broncos in a tough spot in two key areas. First, they are extremely low on draft capital. Secondly, they are not in the greatest position with the salary cap, especially given they have a roster that needs a great deal of work.

They might have an answer to that.

Appearing on KOA Colorado, NFL insider Benjamin Allbright noted that the Broncos could be looking to trade a former first-round pick, offensive tackle Garett Bolles.

Broncos rumors: Garett Bolles trade on the table for Denver

Now, it’s worth noting that Zac Stevens of DNVR refuted this a bit, saying that Denver had not had any talks about trading Bolles. However, Allbright then clearly responded without tagging in saying that people were wrapped up in semantics and that there could well be internal discussions still.

Per source, there has been “zero talk” within the Broncos organization regarding Garett Bolles potentially being traded this offseason.

— Zac Stevens (@ZacStevensDNVR) February 15, 2023

The semantics games around the league is always fun.

Guys that are going to be shopped, but haven’t yet, “haven’t had talks” (yet) etc.

Teams are also really cognizant of it getting out before they want it to, so the player doesn’t get mad…especially if they can’t move him

— Benjamin Allbright (@AllbrightNFL) February 15, 2023

No matter the case, trading Bolles is an idea that’s out there right now and would make some sense. For starters, the Broncos would recoup $9.823 million in cap room, effectively doubling the space they should have going into the offseason.

More importantly, though, Denver doesn’t have a pick until the third round of this year’s draft due to their trading and doesn’t have a first-round pick in next year’s draft either. While they might not be able to get a first-rounder in return for Bolles, they would be able to at least somewhat replenish their draft capital.

All told, we’ll have to see what materializes with Bolles and the Broncos on the trade market. It figures to be a wild trade season now that the Super Bowl has come and gone, and Denver may well have a part to play in it.

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