The Broncos have not released linebacker Dre Greenlaw. They instead will wait until the new league year so they can designate him as a post-June 1 cut, Chris Tomasson of the Denver Gazette reports.
The Broncos will save $8.19 million this year, rather than $6.023 million, and taking a $2.166 million dead cap hit instead of $4.33 million. They will have another $2.164 million in dead money for 2027.
Greenlaw signed a three-year contract last March and was scheduled to make $7.47 million this season.
He dealt with a quad injury early in the 2025 season and missed another game due to a suspension. He had 43 tackles, a sack, an interception and a forced fumble in eight regular-season appearances.
The Broncos re-signed linebackers Justin Strnad and Alex Singleton.
The Cowboys are adding a safety.
Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Dallas has agreed to a one-year deal with P.J. Locke.
Locke, 29, had been with the Broncos since 2019 after initially entering the league as an undrafted free agent with the Steelers. Locke spent most of his time on special teams through his first few seasons, but started eight games in 2023 and 15 games in 2024.
In 2025, Locke was again more of a special teams player, as he was on the field for 45 percent of the unit’s snaps in games played compared to just 17 percent of defensive snaps. He was at 96 percent of defensive snaps in games played during the 2024 season.
In all, Locke has appeared in 90 games with 26 starts, recording 11 passes defensed, five forced fumbles, and one interception.
The numbers are in for Broncos running back J.K. Dobbins. Given his injury history, they’re not too shabby.
Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, it’s a two-year, $20 million deal with $8 million in full guarantees. We’re told that the deal pays out a straight $8 million in the first year, with no per-game active roster bonus and $2 million in incentives.
In 2025, Dobbins’s first year with the Broncos, he rushed for 772 yards in 10 games. A foot injury suffered on a Thursday night against the Raiders ended his season.
It was the latest in a stream of injuries suffered by a player who plays one of the most physically demanding positions in football. When he’s healthy, however, he’s effective.
Dobbins has a career rushing average of 5.2 yards per carry. And at $10 million per year, he did better than plenty of other running backs who either re-signed with their current teams (like Javonte Williams) or who signed with a new team (like Kenneth Gainwell).
The Broncos are moving on from linebacker Dre Greenlaw, but they are keeping linebacker Alex Singleton.
According to multiple reports, Singleton has agreed to terms on a two-year, $15.5 million deal with $11 million guaranteed. He becomes the sixth of the team’s free agents to come to terms on a new deal.
He ranks 97th on PFT’s list of top-100 free agents.
Singleton, 32, has spent the past four seasons with the Broncos.
He tore his ACL in Week 3 of the 2024 season but returned in time to start the 2025 season opener. Then, one day after making nine tackles in a win over the Raiders on Nov. 6, Singleton underwent surgery for testicular cancer.
He missed only one game and made 135 tackles, four passes defensed and a sack in 16 games.
Singleton spent his first three seasons with the Eagles.
The Broncos signed linebacker Dre Greenlaw to a three-year contract last March, but he won’t make it into the second year of that deal.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the Broncos will release Greenlaw.
Greenlaw was set to make $7.47 million, but none of the money was guaranteed and releasing him before March 5 avoids $2 million of that compensation becoming guaranteed. The Broncos will clear a little more than $6 million in cap space with over $4.3 million in dead money.
Greenlaw dealt with a quad injury early in the 2025 season and missed another game due to a suspension. He had 43 tackles, a sack, an interception and a forced fumble in eight regular season appearances.
The Broncos have re-signed Justin Strnad and Alex Singleton, which will make Greenlaw the most significant departure from the linebacking corps.
