Dre Greenlaw ‘just wasn't happy’ with Broncos last season
Dre Greenlaw struggled to stay healthy and rotated snaps at linebacker when healthy last season. "I just wasn't happy," he told Terron Armstead.
The Denver Broncos parted with linebacker Dre Greenlaw during NFL free agency after he struggled to stay in the field during the 2025 season. Last year, injuries and a one-game suspension limited Greenlaw to playing in eight games (seven starts) with the Broncos, snagging one interception, forcing one fumble, one sack, two pass deflections and 43 total tackles (15 solo, 28 assisted). After being cut by Denver, Greenlaw returned to the San Francisco 49ers after just one year in Mile High.
Greenlaw recently spoke out about his time in Denver during an interview on Terron Armstead's The Set podcast, and his review was honest. "For me, it was like, the fact that I'm not healthy, I don't feel that twitch or that gear that I felt like I need to have, but obviously I'm out here trying to do everything I can to be on the field," Greenlaw said, via NFL. com .
"It makes it tough when you pay a guy $11 million and he's only on the field 50 percent of the time. It made it tough for me. It made it to the point where it kind of makes you not happy.
"Now, I've got to slowly come in and take reps from somebody else, which the linebackers were playing really, really good at the time, so now I'm just taking reps from this guy. And now it's like, OK, we're splitting reps, how are we going to do it? One week it's this, one week it's that, and it's like, I've never been in that position before.