15 worst free agent signings in Denver Broncos franchise history

11. Jeff Driskel, QB (2020)

Hindsight is always 20-20, but sometimes even in the moment, you scratch your head at moves that get made and wonder what your favorite team is thinking and doing.

Everyone was operating in a completely new world in the 2020 offseason, to be fair. The pandemic had greatly impacted the way teams had to operate, and nobody could have known exactly what the year would bring or what the future would hold, specifically for Broncos QB Drew Lock.

Lock was coming off of a promising finish to the 2019 season and just about everyone in Broncos Country was hopeful that they may have discovered the new QB of the future. The 2020 offseason was almost completely tailored to making life better for Lock, including the fact that the Broncos went out and spent decent money on a quarterback who posed absolutely no threat to him in Jeff Driskel.

Driskel was with the Bengals in 2019 where they had reportedly experimented with him as a wide receiver. Then the Broncos signed him to a two-year deal worth $5 million to play QB the next offseason.

The Broncos would end up needing Driskel to play in 2020 in three games, and the results were predictably bad. He completed less than 55 percent of his passes. Actually, the Broncos would need Driskel to play in four games, but unfortunately, he was one of an entire room of QBs that violated COVID protocol, eliminating him as a possibility to play vs. the Saints late in the 2020 season.

That resulted in the infamous Kendall Hinton game.

The Broncos didn't bring Driskel back in 2021.