Denver Broncos free agency: The Broncos are in serious danger of losing running back C.J. Anderson to another team on the first day of the league year…
This was the risk the Denver Broncos took when they attached the low round tender to restricted free agent C.J. Anderson, and it could be coming back to bite them in the butt.
And all of Broncos Country collectively screams in horror…
C.J. Anderson has, understandably, become a fan favorite. There’s not a player on the team that gives more effort than him on a play-by-play basis, and he’s such a vocal guy on social media about expressing his feelings, that people love his refreshing honesty.
When the Broncos placed the low-round RFA tender on him, he responded in surprise, but vowed to go to work to prove his worth. Now, other teams around the league are showing him his value instead.
The Broncos could have paid roughly $900,000 more on an RFA tender to put Anderson at a 2nd round value, a price of which no team in the NFL would likely pay in a deep market of free agent backs. For no compensation, though?
Anderson is a desirable commodity, and teams are lining up for his services now, including some of our old pals.
John Fox and the Chicago Bears are interested in Anderson, as are the Miami Dolphins and new head coach Adam Gase, who just lost starting running back Lamar Miller to the Houston Texans…
…where he’ll be receiving handoffs from Brock Osweiler…
The NFL offseason is a whirlwind of great things, but the Broncos are currently losing a lot more players than they are holding onto or adding. That will eventually change, and believe it or not, they will wind up with a full 53-man roster. However, losing C.J. Anderson would flat out suck, and that seems like a realistic possibility if these reports are indeed true.
Gross.