The Broncos have announced Sean Payton’s full coaching staff for the 2026 season.
The most significant change comes at offensive coordinator. Davis Webb is moving up from quarterbacks coach and Payton is handing the offensive play-calling duties to him as well. The rest of the offensive staff includes offensive run game coordinator/assistant head coach Zach Strief, pass game coordinator John Morton, offensive line coach Chris Morgan, running backs coach Lou Ayeni, wide receivers coach Ronald Curry, tight ends coach Austin King, quarterbacks coach Logan Kilgore, and director of game management/assistant quarterbacks coach Evan Rothstein. Kyle Kempt, JD Johnson, and Willie Snead will all be quality control coaches.
Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph will oversee a group that includes senior defensive assistant Joe Vitt, pass game coordinator Robert Livingston, defensive line coach Jamar Cain, defensive backs coach Doug Belk, inside linebackers coach Jeff Schmedding, and outside linebackers coach Isaac Shewmaker. Brian Niedermeyer and Todd Davis are the quality control coaches on that side of the ball.
Special teams coordinator/assistant head coach Darren Rizzi, assistant special teams coach Marwan Maalouf, special teams quality control coach Zach Line, and assistant to the head coach Paul Kelly make up the rest of the staff.
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The Broncos reached contract agreements with three of their free agents on Wednesday.
Mike Klis of 9News reports that tight end Lucas Krull, defensive lineman Matt Henningsen and fullback Adam Prentice will sign one-year deals to remain in Denver.
Krull, 27, started the Broncos’ first three games as an extra tight end last season. He was inactive for one game before breaking his foot in Week 5, ending his season.
In three seasons with the Broncos, Krull has 29 catches for 262 yards and a touchdown.
The Broncos are signing him back for $1.33 million, per Klis.
Prentice, 29, replaced Michael Burton as the team’s fullback after Burton’s season-ending hamstring injury during a joint practice with the Packers. Prentice played all 19 games for the Broncos last year.
Henningsen played in all 34 possible games in 2022-23 before spending 2024 on the practice squad. He tore an Achilles in a joint practice with the 49ers last summer and missed the season.
Conflicting reports have emerged regarding the two-year contract signed by Broncos running back J.K. Dobbins. The best way to clear it up is to go to the deal itself.
Here’s the breakdown, per a source with knowledge of the terms:
1. Signing bonus: $4 million.
2. 2026 base salary: $4 million, fully guaranteed.
3. 2027 base salary: $7 million.
4. 2027 per-game active roster bonus: $1 million total ($58,823 per game).
The deal includes an annual $2 million incentive, if Dobbins gains 1,200 yards from scrimmage. That’s something he’s never done in his career, largely due to injury. Last year, he had 809 yards from scrimmage in 10 games. That pace projects to 1,375 yards.
It’s a two-year, $16 million deal. The first $8 million isn’t tied to per-game roster bonuses. It can be worth up to $20 million.
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.
Running back J.K. Dobbins wants to be a “Bronco for life.” He’ll be a Broncos for at least one more year, maybe two.
Via Zac Stevens of DNVR Sports, Dobbins and the Broncos have agreed to a two-year deal.
Dobbins had 772 rushing yards in 10 games for the Broncos last year; a Week 10 foot injury ended his season.
When healthy, he’s effective. He averaged 5.0 yards per carry in 2025. For his career, his per-carry average is 5.2 yards.
The issue has been staying healthy. He played 15 games as a rookie in 2020.
The second-round pick spent four years with the Ravens. He suffered a torn Achilles tendon in the first game of his final season in Baltimore.
He gained a career-high 905 rushing yards with the Chargers in 2024, before joining the Broncos for 2025.
The agreement will couple Dobbins with RJ Harvey as the one-two punch in the backfield for the Broncos.
The Titans have agreed to terms with defensive end John Franklin-Myers.
Franklin-Myers will get a three-year, $63 million deal, with $42 million guaranteed, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports.
It reunites Franklin-Myers with Robert Saleh in Tennessee. The two were together with the Jets, who traded him to the Broncos before the 2024 season.
Franklin-Myers, 29, played 33 of 34 games the past two seasons with the Broncos. He totaled 65 tackles, 14.5 sacks and 33 quarterback hits in his time in Denver.
In his eight seasons, Franklin-Myers has 200 tackles, 34 sacks and 94 quarterback hits. He entered the league as a fourth-round pick of the Rams in 2018.
The Titans agreed to terms with wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson earlier in the day, with Robinson rejoining Brian Daboll in Nashville.
