Or rather, they’ve acquired a quarterback.
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The Denver Broncos have completed a trade for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Mark Sanchez.
The Broncos were searching for a quarterback this off-season after the retirement of Peyton Manning and Brock Osweiler’s departure in free agency. He is due $4.5 million in base salary in 2016. But the fifth overall pick in the 2009 draft lost his job in NY and spent the last two seasons with the Eagles, starting 10 games and going 4-6 filling in for Nick Foles and later Sam Bradford.
Sanchez went to the AFC Championship Game in each of his first two seasons with the Jets, mostly relying on a solid defense and the scheming of head coach Rex Ryan.
Elway might need to have that same confidence in Sanchez. He’ll likely obtain another experienced passer and nearly certainly will grab a QB in next month’s draft. He’s facing the possibility of replacing 10 players who started in the Super Bowl, including lead running back C.J. Anderson, who signed a four-year, $18 million offer sheet from the Miami Dolphins on Thursday. Sanchez is in the a year ago of his contract, and it’s possible the Broncos could look to him to bridge the gap between the present and a future of a high draft pick or Siemian. Only by that point, Osweiler, apparently still steaming from the late-season benching that allowed Manning to helm the Broncs’ successful playoff run, was no longer interested in listening.
Never has he worked with a pair of receivers as accomplished and prolific as Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders.
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It’s highly unlikely that Denver will settle on Sanchez as its starter for 2016 but the free agent quarterback field is thinning rapidly and John Elway had to act.
