Denver Broncos: 7 most heated offseason position battles

2. Back-end wide receiver positions

How the Denver Broncos divvy up snaps between their top four receivers at the moment — Courtland Sutton, Jerry Jeudy, Tim Patrick, and KJ Hamler — is going to be fascinating enough.

The real question at this point is — who is going to win roster spots behind those four guys?

It’s hard to look at the Denver Broncos’ current group of wide receivers and imagine a huge chunk of them ultimately being cut, but that’s precisely what’s going to happen in the not-so-distant future.

Right now, the favorite for the WR5 spot has to be 2020 seventh-round pick Tyrie Cleveland, a player who was considered one of the top special teams guys coming into the league last year and ended up playing 132 special teams snaps in total last year.

He will have some stiff competition with 2021 sixth-round pick Seth Williams, another height-weight-speed player with fascinating upside. Williams will have to prove his worth on special teams, but based on draft status, he’s got to be one of the favorites to be either the WR5 or WR6.

Diontae Spencer is considered one of the top return specialists in the NFL, and if the Broncos ended up keeping seven receivers, you’d have to think these three guys — Cleveland, Williams, and Spencer — are the odds-on favorites to make it.

Behind them, however, there will be fun competition.

Kendall Hinton, the practice squad receiver who started a game at QB in 2020, returns for a second offseason with the team. Trinity Benson has been with the Denver Broncos since 2019 and will have yet another shot in the 2021 offseason to prove he could be an active roster caliber player.

After DaeSean Hamilton tore his ACL, the Broncos signed former Bengals UDFA Damion Willis who has some regular season action under his belt already.

Among the team’s undrafted free agent crop, Warren Jackson of Colorado State is one of the biggest skill players on the team at 6-foot-6 and could be an undrafted steal.