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 $10 million in the first year, with no per-game active roster bonus.
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).
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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.
With the Saints adding running back Travis Etienne on a reported four-year, $52 million deal, Alvin Kamara’s nine-year run with the team could be ending.
Kamara’s recent restructuring didn’t come with a signing bonus, and the final year of his contract carries only $3 million in injury guarantees. He could be traded; he also could be released.
The 31-year-old Kamara was a third-round pick in 2017. In 2025, he had a career-low 471 rushing yards and a career-low 186 receiving yards in 11 games.
Kamara has been a fixture in New Orleans for nine seasons. The investment made on Monday in Etienne could lead to an end of the road for Kamara with the Saints.
If/when he goes, it’ll be interesting to see whether Sean Payton, who became smitten with Kamara during the 2017 pre-draft process, makes a play for a reunion with Kamara.
As expected, the war in the Middle East has forced the Saudi Arabian flag football event out of Saudi Arabia.
Via Sports Business Journal, Fanatics Studios has announced that the March 21 three-team tournament will relocate to Los Angeles. The games will be played at BMO Stadium, a 22,000-seat soccer venue that will host flag football games during the 2028 Olympics.
The latest announcement has a new twist. Two teams will consist of current and former NFL players. The third team will be the U.S. men’s national team.
As initially described, the tournament consisted of three teams coached by Kyle Shanahan, Sean Payton, and Pete Carroll. Now, the coaches with NFL ties will be Shanahan and Payton, with Robert Saleh serving as the defensive specialist for both of the teams made up of non-flag players.
On March 18, the two teams will pick players from a pool that is expected to include Saquon Barkley, Myles Garrett, Odell Beckham Jr., Rob Gronkowski, and Logan Paul (with Paul there, Le’Veon Bell could make an unscheduled appearance).
The involvement of the U.S. men’s team will indeed make it a real competition. USA Football will eventually determine the identity of the U.S. men’s team for the Olympics. The existing flag football players will want to show that they deserve fair consideration. And the flag players know the flag game far better than the non-flag players do.
That alone makes the tournament far more compelling. And it underscores that the active NFL players who will be participating will be assuming a risk of injury that is less than playing tackle football but greater than not playing flag football against a team of flag-football experts with something to prove.
The Broncos are keeping their quarterback room intact.
Third-string quarterback Sam Ehlinger, who was slated to hit free agency this week, has agreed to a new contract to remain with the Broncos, the Denver Post reports.
It’s a one-year deal that will pay Ehlinger $2 million for the 2026 season.
Ehlinger seems to like it in Denver; he reportedly turned down multiple offers to sign with other teams’ active rosters when he was on the Broncos’ practice squad last season. Both Broncos head coach Sean Payton and offensive coordinator David Webb have spoken highly of Ehlinger and said they believe Denver is a place where he’ll continue to develop as a quarterback.
Broncos starting quarterback Bo Nix is heading into the third year of his rookie contract and backup Jarrett Stidham is in the second year of a two-year he signed last offseason.
Tight end Nate Adkins is returning to the Broncos on a one-year deal, Parker Gabriel of The Denver Post reports.
Adkins was a restricted free agent.
Denver now has Evan Engram, Adam Trautman, Adkins and Caleb Lohner under contract at the position for 2026. Trautman agreed to a three-year deal earlier Sunday.
Adkins, 26, played only nine games in 2025, undergoing tight-rope surgery for a high-ankle sprain in training camp and then straining his posterior cruciate ligament in an Oct. 26 game against the Jaguars.
Adkins is used on offense for his blocking ability, and he played 33 percent of the offensive snaps in the games he appeared last season. He has only 24 receptions for185 yards and four touchdowns in his three seasons.
In 2024, Adkins played 420 offensive snaps and 280 on special teams.
Broncos tight end Adam Trautman won’t test free agency.
Trautman has agreed to a new three-year contract to remain in Denver.
According to Mike Klis of 9 News, it’s a three-year, $17 million contract for Trautman, who has an important role as a blocking tight end in Sean Payton’s offense and also caught 20 passes for 195 yards last season.
Trautman was a 2020 third-round pick of the Saints and played two seasons for Payton in New Orleans, and when Payton became the head coach in Denver, the Broncos traded for Trautman. Although Trautman could have hit free agency this week, he’s a good fit for what Payton likes to do on offense, and it’s no surprise that he’ll be staying in Denver.
Trautman is the second impending free agent the Broncos re-signed to a three year deal today; Broncos linebacker Justin Strnad also agreed to a three-year deal.
