Denver Broncos Should Tend to Emmanuel Sanders

All eyes are on the contract situation between the Denver Broncos and OLB Von Miller this year. They have until July 15 to get a deal or he has to play this season under the franchise tag. And he’s already said he’s not going to play this season under the one-year franchise tag.

Why would he want to risk injury before signing his next contract?

The Philadelphia Eagles just extended Fletcher Cox for six years and $103 million, with $63 million guaranteed. That contract has all H-E-double-hockey sticks has breaking loose as New York Jets DE Muhammad Wilkerson is in the same situation Miller is in right now.

You know, I’m thinking that if the Broncos signed Miller last year, his contract would be much cheaper. And that would have set the market for Cox, who has yet to show he’s worth as much as Miller. The Broncos have a chance to do that right now with wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders.

Sanders is on the final season of his current deal, and it would make sense for the Broncos to keep him. Obviously, Miller’s deal is priority No. 1 for the team right now and Sanders doesn’t seem that worried about it but the Broncos need to re-sign Sanders before the market is set higher.

Sanders told the Denver Post, “I don’t think it weighs on me. I think it weighs on other people and then they talk about it and it’s like, ‘All right, you’re trying to put the weight on me.’ If I could just keep my ears closed and not listen to the noise, I wouldn’t even know this is a contract year.

That sounds good now but that could change quickly if a wideout that’s not as good as Sanders signs a huge contract next offseason. Sanders, 29, has caught 177 passes and 15 touchdowns over his two seasons in Denver with 76 of them for 1,135 yards and six TDs last season.

The Broncos can’t let that kind of production walk out of the door in 2017.