Ty Warren wasn&#8217;t active for long during last summer&#8217;s training camp before getting hurt. He missed the entire 2011 season.
Ty Warren wasn't active for long during last summer's training camp before getting hurt. He missed the entire 2011 season. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)

Today's question about the Broncos comes from Shaun Cooney in Grand Junction:



He has yet to participate in any of the team's organized team activities (OTAs), which are technically voluntary, but the expectation is that players will be there. Warren is scheduled to earn $4 million in base salary this season with a salary cap figure of $5.25 million.

The Broncos have asked him to take a pay cut, which he isn't excited about.

From a player's perspective, teams are going to cut players when they want to, whether there are years remaining on the contract or not, so players and their representatives aren't going to roll back their pay in any situation without a bit of a fight.

From the Broncos' perspective, they paid out $4 million to a player who didn't play a down in the regular season last year and hasn't played in a regular-season game since 2009.

He's missed the last two seasons because of injury, he's 31 and the Broncos have already signed free agent Justin Bannan and used their first draft pick, a second-rounder, on defensive tackle Derek Wolfe.

Wolfe has been lauded by NFL personnel executives as a high-effort player who will be in some team's lineup quickly.


If Warren doesn't show then, he will be fined by the team, and at that point they likely would consider moving on if he still didn't want to take the pay cut. The Broncos don't appear all that interested in keeping Warren at his current salary.


Harris played in 13 games last season for San Diego with an average of 20 snaps a game. That's about the level of participation any team signing him would be looking to get.

He's had some knee and hamstring troubles in recent years, so folks shouldn't expect to see the explosive, top-tier defensive tackle Harris was early in his career. Still, he's a high-character guy with some interior rush skills and will be on somebody's roster before the season starts.


Harris certainly looks like the best of what remains on the market at the position and has played in 4-3 and 3-4 fronts, so he could adjust to the Broncos' scheme. The Broncos play a 4-3 scheme, but do show fronts more closely related to 3-4 defenses at times.

Jeff Legwold: 303-954-2359 or jlegwold@denverpost.com