Broncos to re-sign LB Alex Singleton, release LB Dre Greenlaw
The Denver Broncos are re-signing one beginning linebacker and releasing one other Monday.
Alex Singleton is returning to the Broncos on a two-year contract, in accordance to a number of experiences, whereas Dre Greenlaw is being launched one 12 months after signing a three-year, $31.5 million contract, in accordance to NFL Network.
The Broncos and Singleton agreed to a two-year contract value $15.5 million that features $11 million assured, in accordance to a number of experiences. The information was first reported by DNVR Sports.
Singleton follows Justin Strand as Broncos linebackers agreeing to offers to return to the group. Strnad agreed to a three-year, $18 million contract that features $10 million assured, a supply informed ESPN on Sunday, confirming a number of experiences.
Greenlaw, 28, completed his lone season with the Broncos with 43 tackles and an interception and compelled fumble in eight video games. He additionally had 10 tackles in two playoff video games. Releasing him will end in simply over $4 million in wage cap financial savings and a $6.33 million lifeless cap cost. If he is designated as a post-June 1 release, the wage cap financial savings could be $6.2 million.
There wasn’t a lot fanfare when the Broncos signed Singleton in free company in 2022. At the time he had been described as a high-value particular groups participant in Philadelphia who had labored his means into the defensive rotation to lead the Eagles in tackles in back-to-back seasons.
The Broncos hoped he would enhance their particular groups and maybe, if issues went proper, he may discover a means into their protection as effectively. All he is executed since is lead the group in tackles in three of his 4 seasons in Denver, come again from an ACL tear in ’24 to have what he stated he considers his finest season in 2025, a 135-tackle marketing campaign which included him taking part in simply weeks after surgical procedure for testicular most cancers.
Singleton, 32, has 768 tackles throughout his seven NFL seasons.
The Broncos signed Greenlaw with the hope he would add some physicality to a protection that had some problem limiting opponents’ explosive runs within the 2024 season. But he missed the offseason program with thigh accidents in addition to the Broncos’ first six video games of the season.
He was additionally suspended for a recreation — the Broncos’ Oct. 26 win over the Dallas Cowboys — due to a postgame confrontation with referee Brad Allen after the Broncos’ win over the New York Giants. At the time, the NFL stated Greenlaw “chased after referee Brad Allen and verbally threatened him as he tried to leave the field.”
ESPN’s Jeff Legwold contributed to this report.
