Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:13 am EDT
By Mark Miller
Wide receiver Brandon Marshall(notes) has been trying o get himself traded from the Denver Broncos for some time now, but it was starting to look like he might be staying in the Mile High City for a few years to come yesterday when a rumor came around, thanks to ESPN, that the team had made a contract-extension proposal to Marshall. That proposal was apparently rejected earlier in training camp after some discussion between the two sides, according to the Denver Post.
An extension seems extra strange right now since Marshall is just coming off a whole lot of bad publicity for not showing as much effort as his teammates in a recent practice. The word is that the Broncos have had a very difficult time trying to trade Marshall due to maturity issues so now the team has decided to grin and bear it for the long haul and hope he doesn't turn into a total Terrell Owens(notes) type of distraction.
He's making $2.198 million this season. And you can bet any kind of talk of a contract extension has got Marshall feeling good since he's been publicly begging for one for months now. But there's no word if the Broncos will put out another extension offer to Marshall now or if the team is just done with the whole mess.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/p...urn=nfl,188557