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Just like that the Broncos have a new kicker.Denver on Tuesday traded a 2024 conditional seventh-round pick to New Orleans for Wil Lutz. Lutz will be reunited with Broncos coach Sean Payton, his former coach with the Saints.To make room for Lutz, the Broncos waived kicker Brett Maher. Teams had to get rosters down from the 90-man offseason limit to the 53-man regular-season number on Tuesday.The Broncos ...

6-7 minutes 8/30/2023The day Sean Payton was hired as Denver’s head coach, he previewed what his first several months on the job would look like.“For the early part of six, seven, eight months, whenever you go to sleep at night, your checklist won’t be complete,” he said Feb. 6. “That’s just part of the deal.”There’s always still more work to do when trying to overhaul a roster and kickstart a franchise ...

BEREA, Ohio -- On the first day of practice after the Browns trimmed their roster to 53, Deshaun Watson and Elijah Moore were conspicuously absent from the practice field.As it turns out, both were sick. Coach Kevin Stefanski will update the media after practice Tuesday.With Watson out, rookie quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson was the only quarterback throwing to receivers and tight ends and handing ...

BEREA, Ohio — Marquise Goodwin danced his way onto the field on the first day of Browns training camp at The Greenbrier Sports Complex, and never stopped smiling even though he was sidelined with bloodclots in his legs and lungs the whole time.Watching him mentor young receivers such as Cedric Tillman and Elijah Moore, you never would’ve guessed the harrowing ordeal he went through in the spring when ...

Akron Beacon JournalThe Browns have tried to draft the solution to their kicking problems. They've tried to find it through free agency and the waiver wire. Now, they're going to the trade route to see if that's the solution.In Dustin Hopkins, who is being traded by the Los Angeles Chargers to Browns in exchange for a 2025 seventh-round pick, the team is acquiring about as veteran a kicker as they ...

Akron Beacon JournalBy 4 p.m. Tuesday, the Browns roster had to be trimmed down from its training camp limit of 90 to the regular season max of 53. That won't be the 53 players who likely will comprise the roster when they open the season on Sept. 10 against the Cincinnati Bengals, but it'll be somewhat close.Twice before, attempts have been made at guessing what that 53-man roster would look like ...

Cincinnati EnquirerThe Cincinnati Bengals have finalized their 53-man roster for the upcoming season.Head coach Zac Taylor is pleased with where his roster is at as he heads into his fifth season. Taylor believes this team has more depth than ever before."In my five years here, I think this is the hardest, and it is the hardest because you have a higher number of quality players that are worthy of ...

Cincinnati EnquirerOne question many Cincinnati Bengals fans had before the team announced its 53-man roster Tuesday was whether Trayveon Williams would be among the team's running backs despite missing most of training camp after suffering an ankle injury Aug. 1.The former sixth-round pick, who turns 26 in October, is one of four Bengals running backs on the roster, along with Joe Mixon, Chase Brown ...

Rochester Democrat and ChronicleOf all the moves the Buffalo Bills made Tuesday to get their roster down to the NFL-mandated 53 players, the most interesting - and some would say disappointing - was the trading of edge rusher Boogie Basham.Giving up on a 2021 second-round draft pick after just two seasons and 4.5 sacks represents quite a whiff on the part of general manager Brandon Beane and his college ...

Rochester Democrat and ChronicleThe Buffalo Bills’ initial 53-man roster has been released, but by no means is that the final iteration.But after Tuesday's cuts, a few notable players remained on the roster including Damar Hamlin, continuing his comeback after collapsing on the field during a Monday Night Football game in Cincinnati in January. Kingsley Jonathan, an undrafted free agent out of Syracuse ...