Lets talk Contracts

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Player Position Contract Terms
Mike Adams Defensive Back 3/15/2012: Signed a two-year, $4 million contract. The deal contains $2 million guaranteed. 2013: $1.75 million (+ $250,000 roster bonus due 3/15), 2014: Free Agent

Robert Ayers Defensive Lineman 8/4/2009: Signed a five-year, $15.50 million contract. The deal contains $9.7 million guaranteed. Another $2.84 million is available through incentives. 2013: $1.06 million, 2014: Free Agent

Champ Bailey Defensive Back 2/22/2011: Signed a four-year, $43 million contract. The deal contains $15 million guaranteed, including a $5 million first-year bonus, all of Bailey's first-year salary, and $4 million of his second-year salary. An additional $7 million is guaranteed for injury only. Bailey is eligible for annual $500,000 workout bonuses. Another $4 million is available through Pro Bowl incentives. 2013: $9.5 million (+ $1.25 million roster bonus due 3/15), 2014: $9 million, 2015: Free Agent

Lance Ball Running Back 2013: Restricted Free Agent (Original-Round Tender)

Justin Bannan Defensive Lineman 2013: Free Agent

Zane Beadles Guard 7/27/2010: Signed a four-year, $4.171 million contract. The deal contains $2.7 million guaranteed, including a $1.72 million signing bonus. 2013: $630,000, 2014: Free Agent

Jeremy Beal Defensive Lineman 1/16/2012: Signed a two-year, $795,000 contract. 2013: $405,000, 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Philip Blake Center 6/1/2012: Signed a four-year, $2.554 million contract. The deal includes a $453,600 signing bonus. 2013: $405,000, 2014: $570,000, 2015: $660,000, 2016: Free Agent

Omar Bolden Defensive Back 5/17/2012: Signed a four-year, $2.574 million contract. The deal included a $474,428 signing bonus. 2013: $480,000, 2014: $570,000, 2015: $660,000, 2016: Free Agent

Justin Boren Guard 1/7/2013: Signed a one-year, $405,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Stewart Bradley Linebacker 3/13/2013: Signed a one-year, $1.2 million contract. The deal included a $200,000 signing bonus. 2013: $900,000 (+ $100,000 workout bonus), 2014: Free Agent

Aaron Brewer Linebacker 4/30/2012: Signed a three-year, $1.444 million contract. The deal included a $4,000 signing bonus. 2013: $480,000, 2014: $570,000, 2015: Restricted Free Agent

Keith Brooking Linebacker 2013: Free Agent

David Bruton Defensive Back 3/11/2013: Signed a three-year, $4.5 million contract.

Mario Butler Defensive Back 1/22/2013: Signed a one-year, $480,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Andre Caldwell Wide Receiver 3/21/2012: Signed a two-year, $1.8 million contract. The deal contains $200,000 in bonus money. 2013: $900,000, 2014: Free Agent

Tony Carter Defensive Back 2013: $715,000, 2014: Restricted Free Agent

Quinton Carter Defensive Back 7/28/2011: Signed a four-year, $2.49 million contract. The deal included a $455,000 signing bonus. 2013: $555,000, 2014: $645,000, 2015: Free Agent

Ryan Clady Tackle 2013: Free Agent (Franchise Tagged)

Chris Clark Tackle 2013: Restricted Free Agent (Original-Round Tender)

Britton Colquitt Punter 2013: Restricted Free Agent (Original-Round Tender)

Paul Cornick Tackle 1/15/2013: Signed a one-year, $405,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

C.J. Davis Guard 9/18/2012: Signed a two-year, $1.02 million contract. 2013: $555,000, 2014: Restricted Free Agent

Eric Decker Wide Receiver 7/26/2010: Signed a four-year, $2.522 million contract. The deal included a $732,150 signing bonus. Another $2.3 million is available through incentives. 2013: $1.323 million, 2014: Free Agent

Joel Dreessen Tight End 3/23/2012: Signed a three-year, $8.5 million contract. The deal contains $2.5 million in bonus money. 2013-2014: $2.5 million, 2015: Free Agent

Mario Fannin Running Back 7/28/2011: Signed a three-year, $1.405 million contract. The deal included a $10,000 signing bonus. 2013: $405,000, 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Orlando Franklin Tackle 7/28/2011: Signed a four-year, $4.35 million contract. The deal included a $1.68 million signing bonus. 2013: $771,000, 2014: $969,000, 2015: Free Agent

Ben Garland Defensive Lineman 1/15/2013: Signed a one-year, $405,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Blake Gideon Defensive Back 1/17/2013: Signed a one-year, $405,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Virgil Green Tight End 7/27/2011: Signed a four-year, $2.16 million contract. The deal included a $17,282 signing bonus. 2013: $555,000, 2014: $645,000, 2015: Free Agent

Chris Harris Defensive Back 7/28/2011: Signed a three-year, $1.398 million contract. The deal included a $3,000 signing bonus. 2013: $555,000, 2014: Restricted Free Agent

Jacob Hester Running Back 11/26/2012: Signed a two-year, $1.415 million contract. 2013: $715,000, 2014: Free Agent

Ronnie Hillman Running Back 7/24/2012: Signed a four-year, $3 million contract. The deal included a $690,832 signing bonus. 2013: $515,000, 2014: $635,000, 2015: $770,000, 2016: Free Agent

Trindon Holliday Wide Receiver 2013: $480,000, 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Duke Ihenacho Defensive Back 1/15/2013: Signed a one-year, $480,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Nate Irving Linebacker 7/28/2011: Signed a four-year, $2.735 million contract. The deal included a $695,000 signing bonus. 2013: $555,000, 2014: $645,000, 2015: Free Agent

Malik Jackson Defensive Lineman 5/17/2012: Signed a four-year, $2,313,600 contract. The deal included a $213,600 signing bonus. 2013: $480,000, 2014: $570,000, 2015: $660,000, 2016: Free Agent

Steven Johnson Linebacker 4/30/2012: Signed a three-year, $1.452 million contract. The deal included a $12,000 signing bonus. 2013: $480,000, 2014: $570,000, 2015: Restricted Free Agent

Jeremiah Johnson Running Back 1/15/2013: Signed a one-year, $480,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Terrance Knighton Defensive Lineman 3/13/2013: Signed a two-year, $4.5 million contract. The deal included a $500,000 signing bonus.

Dan Koppen Center 2013: Free Agent

Chris Kuper Guard 6/4/2010: Signed a six-year. $28.012 million contract. The deal contains $13.021 million guaranteed. 2013: $4.5 million, 2014: $5 million, 2015: $5.5 million, 2016: Free Agent

Jim Leonhard Defensive Back 2013: Free Agent

Peyton Manning Quarterback 3/20/2012: Signed a five-year, $96 million contract. The deal includes $18 million guaranteed -- Manning's 2012 base salary. The guarantees can rise to $60 million (Manning's 2013-2014 base salaries) if he passes a physical on March 13 of 2013. Manning's fourth year salary becomes guaranteed if on roster at end of year three and his fifth year salary becomes guaranteed if on roster at end of year four. 2013-2014: $20 million, 2015-2016: $19 million, 2017: Free Agent

Joe Mays Linebacker 3/18/2012: Signed a three-year, $12 million contract. The deal contains $4.5 million guaranteed, including a $500,000 signing bonus, all of Mays' first-year salary, and $500,000 of his second-year salary. 2013: $4 million, 2014: $3.5 million (+ $500,000 roster bonus), 2015: Free Agent

Willis McGahee Running Back 7/30/2011: Signed a four-year, $9.5 million contract. The deal contains $3 million guaranteed, including a $2 million signing bonus. 2013: $2.5 million, 2014: $2 million, 2015: Free Agent

Von Miller Linebacker 7/28/2011: Signed a four-year, $21 million contract. The deal is fully guaranteed, including a $13.7 million signing bonus. 2013: $2,284,125, 2014: $3,238,688, 2015: Free Agent

Rahim Moore Defensive Back 7/28/2011: Signed a four-year, $4.448 million contract. The deal included a $1.73 million signing bonus. 2013: $779,375, 2014: $981,563, 2015: Free Agent

Knowshon Moreno Running Back 8/7/2009: Signed a five-year, $16.7 million contract. The deal contains $13.125 million guaranteed, including a second-year roster bonus of $3.775 million. Another $6.3 million is available through incentives. The Broncos can exercise an option year in 2014 by paying Moreno $5.08 million. 2013: $1.7 million, 2014: $1.31 million (Club Option), 2015: Free Agent

Greg Orton Wide Receiver 1/22/2013: Signed a one-year, $405,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Brock Osweiler Quarterback 7/24/2012: Signed a four-year, $3.516 million contract. The deal included a $997,584 signing bonus. 2013: $549,849, 2014: $570,000, 2015: $660,000, 2016: Free Agent

Matt Prater Place Kicker 7/2/2012: Signed a four-year, $13 million contract. The deal contains $4.25 million guaranteed, including a $3 million signing bonus. Another $1.05 million is available through Pro Bowl escalators. 2013: $2.5 million, 2014: $3 million, 2015: $3.25 million, 2016: Free Agent

Broncos QB Quarterback

Manuel Ramirez Guard 3/19/2012: Signed a two-year, $1.415 million contract. 2013: $815,000, 2014: Free Agent

Gerell Robinson Wide Receiver 1/7/2013: Signed a two-year, $900,000 contract. 2013: $405,000, 2014: $495,000, 2015: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Defensive Back 3/13/2013: Signed a two-year, $10 million contract. The deal contains $5 million guaranteed -- a $4.2 million signing bonus and Rodgers-Cromartie's 2013 base salary. The second season voids if Rodgers-Cromartie is on Denver's roster five days after Super Bowl 48. 2013: $800,000, 2014: Voidable Year, 2015: Free Agent

Quentin Saulsberry Center 1/15/2013: Signed a one-year, $405,000 contract. 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Sealver Siliga Defensive Lineman 9/8/2012: Signed a two-year, $870,000 contract. 2013: $480,000, 2014: Exclusive Rights Free Agent

Brandon Stokley Wide Receiver 2013: Free Agent

Jacob Tamme Tight End 3/23/2012: Signed a three-year, $9 million contract. The deal contains $3.5 million guaranteed. 2013: $2.625 million, 2014: $3 million, 2015: Free Agent

Julius Thomas Tight End 7/27/2011: Signed a four-year, $2.42 million contract. The deal included a $384,000 signing bonus. 2013: $555,000, 2014: $645,000, 2015: Free Agent

Demaryius Thomas Wide Receiver 7/31/2010: Signed a five-year, $12.155 million contract. The deal contains $9.35 million guaranteed, including a onetime bonus payment of $6.38 million. Another $3.345 million is available through incentives. 2013: $836,500, 2014: $3.275 million, 2015: Free Agent

Danny Trevathan Linebacker 5/22/2012: Signed a four-year, $2,204,072 contract. The deal included a $104,072 signing bonus. 2013: $480,000, 2014: $570,000, 2015: $660,000, 2016: Free Agent

Mitch Unrein Defensive Lineman 2013: $555,000, 2014: Restricted Free Agent

Louis Vasquez Guard 3/12/2013: Signed a four-year, $23.5 million contract. The deal contains $13 million guaranteed, including a $5 million signing bonus. 2013: Under Contract, 2014: Under Contract (+ $3 million roster bonus), 2015-2016: Under Contract, 2017: Free Agent

Kevin Vickerson Defensive Lineman 3/12/2013: Signed a two-year, $5 million contract. The deal included a $1 million signing bonus.

J.D. Walton Center 6/17/2010: Signed a four-year, $2.589 million contract. The deal included a $798,500 signing bonus. 2013: $1.323 million, 2014: Free Agent

Ty Warren Defensive Lineman 2013: Free Agent

Wes Welker Wide Receiver 3/13/2013: Signed a two-year, $12 million contract. The deal is fully guaranteed, including a $4 million signing bonus. Another $150,000 is available through incentives for each year Welker catches 90-plus passes. 2013: $2 million, 2014: $3 million (+ $3 million roster bonus), 2015: Free agent

Matt Willis Wide Receiver 2013: Free Agent

Derek Wolfe Defensive Lineman 5/21/2012: Signed a four-year, $6,247,675 contract. The deal contains $3,284,312 guaranteed -- a $2,267,640 signing bonus, all of Wolfe's first two base salaries, and a $146,672 roster bonus in the second season. 2013: $480,000 (+ $146,672 roster bonus), 2014: $710,017 (+ $153,328 roster bonus), 2015: $1,100,018, 2016: Free Agent

Wesley Woodyard Linebacker 3/19/2012: Signed a two-year, $3.5 million contract. 2013: $3 million, 2014: Free Agent

[Superchop 7]

DRC's contract is confusing, if it makes sense to anyone ......please explain.

[Joel]

Nice overview, if worrisome; we don't have many guys under contracts beyond this year, and precious few beyond 2014, but have a huge monetary committment to Manning both. I'd hate to see us in the same boat as the Ravens next year: A Super Bowl winner entirely dismantled by free agency and age. The only thing I'd hate more is seeing us in that boat WITHOUT another Super Bowl win. How does our '14 cap look?

[aulaza]

Here are our Notable Free agents this time next year:

Robert Ayers
Ryan Clady
Wesley Woodyard
Tony Carter
Britton Colquitt
Eric Decker
Chris Harris
Trindon Holliday
Mike Adams
Zane Beadles
JD Walton

(full list here) http://www.spotrac.com/free-agents/nfl/2014/denver-broncos/

According to Spotrac, all of the guys still under contract add up to $100M next year. So that gives us 20 odd space (depending on exact CAP), plus any rollover, plus anyone we cut before then (e.g. Joe Mays?) with which to resign who we want.

[Simple Jaded]

Chris Harris is a restricted free agent, the only concern in 2014 is whether or not you can extend him. Considering Clady will take half of the currently available space I think Decker, Woodyard and either Beadles or Walton should be considered likely to extend.

Here's hoping it's just Harris, Decker and Woodyard along with Demaryious Thomas and Clady.

[CoachChaz]

Even when Peyton retires, reality dictates someone ekse of significance will have to go. That's pretty much tge purpose of the cap...to prevent empires

[Joel]

I'll drink to the departure of Walton, and Beadles, too unless he improves as much as last year. However, I think Ayers is a good LDE unless asked to be the RDE he can't be, like Carter as a cheap and mostly solid nickelback, definitely like Colquitt as a punter and don't want to part with Holliday after he returned 4 kicks for TDs last year (half of them in a playoff game.) Still, $10 million doesn't give us a lot of flexibility. If I understood all this right, our cap hit for releasing Mays next year would be negligible, but free up about $4 million we could spend on Colquitt, Holliday and/or Ayers, so hopefully we're all over that.


Even when Peyton retires, reality dictates someone ekse of significance will have to go. That's pretty much tge purpose of the cap...to prevent empires
I can't help wondering if the problem's self-correcting, if Champ and Manning retire together. I suspect much depends on if/when we manage a Super Bowl trip, but note Champ's not under contract after 2014 either.

[MOtorboat]

Even when Peyton retires, reality dictates someone ekse of significance will have to go. That's pretty much tge purpose of the cap...to prevent empires

It's likely to be one of the receivers, I think.

Looking at guys who are looking at big pay days, you have Clady, Miller, D. Thomas. If one needs to be let go because we can't afford him, I see it being Thomas.

But if you look at that list, Denver has a LOT of flexibility after next year AND after 2014. I think Elway and company have done an excellent job cap-wise.