The 2024 NFL league year started officially Wednesday. The Broncos kicked things off by agreeing to reunite with yet another member of their 2023 team.
The latest is wide receiver Lil’Jordan Humphrey, who agreed to a one-year contract, his agents Jimmy and Ryan Gould confirmed to The Post.
Humphrey will make the league minimum $1.125 million on a non-guaranteed deal, a source said.
Humphrey didn’t make Denver’s 53-man roster at the end of training camp last year, but ended up appearing in all 17 games for Denver.
He started off on the practice squad and went back and forth between there and the active over the course of the season.
The bottom line, however, is that he was active every game and caught 13 passes for 162 and 3 TDs.
He turned in one of the highlight plays of the season when he hauled in a crossing route from Jarrett Stidham in Week 17 against the Los Angeles Chargers and rumbled 54 yards for a touchdown through several defenders.
Now that the NFL calendar has officially turned to 2024, the Broncos also formally completed their trade of receiver Jerry Jeudy to Cleveland in exchange for a pair of 2024 draft picks — a fifth-rounder and a sixth-rounder. The numbers on those picks each changed by one when the league this week corrected its compensation pick tally for other teams. Denver received Nos. 136 (the first pick of the fifth round) and 203 from the Browns.
“I had heard that the Browns were interested in me even two years ago,” Jeudy told Cleveland’s team website. “To hear that, and then be here now is exciting. It’s surreal. I feel like I am wanted, and the team has really made me feel welcomed. The Browns already had a great receiving corps with guys like Amari Cooper and Elijah Moore and I think I will fit in with them. Amari is actually a guy I’ve been modeling my game after since I was young and we became friends while I was at Bama.
“I am excited to see what the future holds.”
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The present group of wide receivers after the most recent pair of moves in Denver: Courtland Sutton, Tim Patrick, Marvin Mims Jr., Brandon Johnson, Jalen Virgil, Michael Bandy and Humphrey.
Humphrey’s return is also the latest in a run of deals Denver has made with players from its 2023 team.
They’ve also re-signed tight end Adam Trautman (two-year deal), fullback Michael Burton (one year), kicker Wil Lutz (two years), safety P.J. Locke (two years) and offensive lineman Quinn Bailey (one year) in the past week.
That group combines to represent a solid number of snaps from a year ago and likely multiple starters in 2024 — Lutz being a shoo-in as long as he’s healthy and Locke in strong position as well. Still, the Broncos are also saying goodbye to the highest-profile of their free agents after both center Lloyd Cushenberry and inside linebacker Josey Jewell landed lucrative multi-year deals in Tennessee and Carolina, respectively. Safety Justin Simmons, who was released last week, is still available as a free agent.
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