Originally Posted by T-post Tom: Broncos release former Super Bowl champion WR Phillip Dorsett
The Broncos’ UDFA contingent became official Friday, and the 13-man haul left the team the task of moving two players off its roster to reach the 90-man offseason limit. The team has complied, cutting two experienced veterans.
Denver informed wide receiver Phillip Dorsett and defensive lineman Rashard Lawrence of their respective releases, according to the Denver Post’s Parker Gabriel and 9News’ Mike Klis.
Dorsett joined the Broncos on a practice squad deal just after teams finalized their initial 53-man rosters last August. The former first-round pick, who failed to make the Raiders’ 53-man roster in training camp, played in two games and caught one pass in 2023. The Broncos were Dorsett’s seventh NFL team. The nine-year veteran turned 31 earlier this offseason.
Dorsett’s best NFL showings came in Indianapolis and New England. The 2015 first-rounder was memorably included in a summer 2017 trade that sent Jacoby Brissett to the Patriots; that deal came after Dorsett totaled a career-high 528 receiving yards. He has not come within 100 yards of that total since. With Houston in 2022, the Miami alum caught 20 passes for 257 yards.
Lawrence, 25, has been with five teams since August 2023. The former Cardinals fourth-round pick, who started 13 games with his original team from 2020-22, did not make Arizona’s first Jonathan Gannon-run roster last year and caught on with the Dolphins’ practice squad. He then bounced to the Panthers and Texans’ taxi squads. The Broncos gave him a reserve/futures contract in January.
Getting cut by the Donks has to be valuable in at least one aspect - the aspect of closure. You hear stories of regret from a lot of NFL retirees because they wonder if they might have hung them up too soon. Maybe they could've played another season or two. But when they can't make a laughable, pathetic roster assembled by the most hapless GM in all of organized team sports, they truly know that they had absolutely nothing left to give. [Reply]
Originally Posted by New World Order:
We own Lamar.
Bengals and Texans are going to be our rivals this year.
Bengals if Burrow is healthy will be tougher, although their defense has taken a step back. Texans will be interesting as we will see if they build off their success last year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tredadda:
Bengals if Burrow is healthy will be tougher, although their defense has taken a step back. Texans will be interesting as we will see if they build off their success last year.
It'll be interesting to see Stroud in his second year. He might take a step back. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tredadda:
Bengals if Burrow is healthy will be tougher, although their defense has taken a step back. Texans will be interesting as we will see if they build off their success last year.
That AFC North is just a nightmare division. Speaking of the AFC North...
Knowmo, any thoughts on your claims that Russell Wilson in Denver was going to stop the Chiefs' postseason success and any other thoughts on Russel this year in Pittsburgh? [Reply]
Remember when the Chiefs were “stuck in the division with EmbaRuss”, and we all poopooed Knowshit, and then he disappeared during both seasons were we’re stuck with him? Oh yeah and we won both SBs while we were stuck in the division with EmbaRuss too!
Originally Posted by New World Order:
That AFC North is just a nightmare division. Speaking of the AFC North...
Knowmo, any thoughts on your claims that Russell Wilson in Denver was going to stop the Chiefs' postseason success and any other thoughts on Russel this year in Pittsburgh?
He won’t answer until he finds a tweet to answer for him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coochie liquor:
Remember when the Chiefs were “stuck in the division with EmbaRuss”, and we all poopooed Knowshit, and then he disappeared during both seasons were we’re stuck with him? Oh yeah and we won both SBs while we were stuck in the division with EmbaRuss too!
What happened to the energy??
Yes. He actually directed that at me, after I told him that HE was STUCK with Russ. Then he, of course, never accepted a ban bet that I or anyone else posed. :-) [Reply]
