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According to 9News’ Mike Klis, the Broncos will pick up Von Miller’s team option for the 2021 season.
The Broncos will exercise the $7 million guarantee option on Von Miller s $18 million salary for 2021, per source. Von stays. #9sports Mike Klis (@MikeKlis) March 16, 2021
Miller was set to become an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his NFL career if the Broncos did not pick up the option. Klis has reported the Broncos did approach Miller about a pay cut and that he did not agree to it. This is probably why the decision to pick up his option took so long.
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We posed the question on Niners Nation’s Twitter handle Wednesday asking which move during the John Lynch/Kyle Shanahan tenure that looks worse now that we have hindsight would you do over again?
Because it’s the internet, half of the responses took that question the wrong way. This isn’t about drafting Solomon Thomas instead of a quarterback or a handful of other obvious mistakes the team made.
Every team in the NFL has those blunders.
We talked about which player the team added at the time that seemed like the correct decision but doesn’t look so hot now. For example, Dante Pettis was an electric receiver in college who was a dynamic return man. He seemed like an ideal fit for the 49ers offense, and we saw those flashes during Pettis’s rookie season.
Why it makes sense
The Broncos have what appears to be a rather pressing need at left corner and Patrick Peterson has played that position his entire career. Signing the All Pro would allow Bryce Callahan to lock down the nickel and provide competition for base personnel snaps with Michael Ojemudia.
Taking a step back from the obvious fact that Peterson will be 31 in July, the situation he’s played in the last three seasons is notable. In 2018 the Cardinals were the worst team in football and Peterson’s running mate was Bene Benwikere, who hasn’t played in the NFL since. In 2019 Steve Keim hired Kliff Kingsbury, who brought on former Broncos’ head coach Vance Joseph to coordinate his defense. The Cardinals brought in free agent reclamations like Dre Kirkpatrick and Day 2 draft picks like Byron Murphy to patch up the corner room. While the defense improved by leaps and bounds this year, Peterson was still counted on to travel with opposing WR1s.