2022 Broncos starters who won’t start in the 2023 season

The Denver Broncos will have some roster turnover as they creep toward 2023. Which 2022 starters will not be starting in the 2023 season?  Even the Super Bowl winner will not carry over starters from the previous season.

It’s just the business of the NFL, especially for bad teams like the Broncos were in 2022.  Strapped with little draft capital but avenues to create cap space, so they’re bound to be aggressive in free agency.

The team also has clear position groups that need some love, and I’d guess that Sean Payton already has an idea of how he wants his roster to look.

Which 2022 starters for the Broncos will not be starting for the team in 2023?

2022 Broncos’ starters who won’t start in the 2023 season – Defense

Ronald Darby, Kareem Jackson, DeShawn Williams

Three 2022 starters on the defense won’t start in 2023, and in fact, I think at least two of them won’t be on the team next year.  Ronald Darby tore his ACL early in the 2022 season and the Broncos can save roughly $10 million on their cap by cutting him.  With the emergence of Damarri Mathis, Darby is expendable.

Kareem Jackson finished his fourth year with the team and proved to be ineffective.  He’s slow and can’t cover, and it became very evident in 2022.  It’s time for the Broncos to move off of Jackson and turn to guys like Caden Sterns and PJ Locke for the future at this position.  If Jackson wanted to re-sign and take a backup role, I think that’s doable.

DeShawn Williams was fine in 2022 I guess, but this was his first year in the NFL as a full-time, week-to-week starter.  He did notch a career-high 4.5 sacks and eight QB hits, but the 30-year-old is also undersized.  I just think Denver can upgrade at this position and perhaps one of Matt Henningsen or Eyioma Uwazurike, the 2022 draft picks along the defensive line, can step up.