Greg Penner and George Paton explain quiet free agency: 'That was the plan'
“We like our players," Broncos GM George Paton said following a quiet free agency period.
After the 2025 season ended, Denver Broncos owner Greg Penner said the team would be " opportunistically aggressive " during NFL free agency. Two months later, the team's only outside signing during free agency was a backup special teams safety . Denver did re-sign 17 of the team's in-house free agents.
“We like our players," general manager George Paton said at the NFL's annual league meeting in Arizona on Monday. "That was the plan. We compare all our players to what’s there in free agency, and our guys were favored and were there pretty high.
We won a lot of games with these guys. They fit the culture, and not everyone does. Hard working, good players.
We’re talking [Alex] Singleton and [Justin] Strnad and J. K. Dobbins — he really changed the landscape of our offense — and ‘Traut’ (Adam Trautman).