This is my personal opinion, so take everything with a grain of salt. I don’t feel like writing a long introduction, but I will have additional thoughts at the end, so without further ado:
Orange Overview: August 23, 2016
49ers at Broncos : The 10 Things I Liked and the 10 Things I Didn’t
The 49ers defense looked pretty good. Listen, the game didn’t go as we all wanted, but that’s why we have a preseason. The common topic that is on everyone’s mind is whether we should throw Paxton Lynch into the quarterback conversations. We absolutely should, however, keep in mind that almost all of his snaps were against a majority of players who won’t be on the 53-man roster. I still think he requires a season of grooming under his belt before he can play against a team like the Carolina Panthers.
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Mike Klis: Ronnie Hillman’s “Days” May Be “Numbered”
This was an excellent observation made by Klis:
The Broncos have already paid $600,000 in signing and workout bonuses to running back Ronnie Hillman this year, but it would be a surprise if they would pay his remaining $1.4 million salary. Not when that salary is non-guaranteed and not when Hillman has fallen to No. 3 on the depth chart behind C.J. Anderson and Booker with No. 4 tailback Kapri Bibbs continuing to play well.
Hillman had a 21-yard kickoff return midway through the fourth quarter Saturday. While returning would enhance his value, it’s not always a good sign for an established veteran to play special teams in the fourth quarter of a preseason game.
UPDATE (7:00 PM MT) Klis has now reported that while Hillman has already been paid a $100,000 signing bonus and $100,000 workout bonus, the remaining $400,000 in guaranteed base salary contains offset language:
But if he’s released and another team signs him for the $760,000 minimum, the Broncos would not have to pay him the $400,000.
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Orange Overview: August 22, 2016
Broncos Sign Henry Melton
Broncos reached agreement with former Bears and Cowboys DE Henry Melton.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 21, 2016
Melton will be poised to help fill the void left by losing Vance Walker to a season-ending ACL tear.
Predict the Broncos roster
As discussed, I thought it’d be fun to do a predict the Broncos roster competition.
Because I want to see what people’s sentiment is after last night’s game, I’m going to leave this open until Tuesday night. Then I’ll post how often each player is picked, so we’ll be able to get a feel for who people think will or won’t make the roster. If we want to do another round after the third or fourth preseason games we can, but I’d figure we’d start with this.
I’ll post the roster below. You can copy and paste it into a comment, and delete out the players you don’t think will make the team. You can put the number of players you are keeping at each position group in that groups heading if you want to help count as you go and to help spur discussion. If you don’t want to do the copy paste method, just list the players you want by last name (no nick names please).
Here’s links to the roster and depth chart.
Let me know if you have any questions or see any errors I made