The Broncos used a seventh-round pick on a punter, not a high price to pay to find out if a guy can play.
And apparerently, Riley Dixon has punted well enough to convince them to try to move their high-priced incumbent.
According to Mike Klis of KUSA, the Broncos have called around to see if anyone’s interested in trading for veteran punter Britton Colquitt.
Dixon did all the punting and holding in Saturday’s game, and there was nothing about the performance (44.9 yards per punt) to make it obvious he can’t do it. And Colquitt seemed to realize he might have done his last work for the Broncos.
“We’ll see what God has planned,” Colquitt said. “God’s got me this far so I’m putting everything in his hands and we don’t have control over anything, anyway.’’
Of course, God wasn’t the one who decided to sign Colquitt to a contract extension after 2012 that made him the highest-paid punter in the game — that was John Elway. Colquitt took a pay cut last year, and they’ve offered him another this year, from $3.25 million down to $1.6 million.
It’s hard to imagine they’d get much in exchange for someone, or that anyone who traded for Colquitt wouldn’t try to beat the same kind of pay cut out of him.
