Mort & Schefter: Steve Smith Sr. ... The Patriot?

The Broncos’ rookie class will be on the field Friday for minicamp and more continue to agree to their first professional contracts. Fifth-round cornerback Kris Abrams-Draine is the latest, as a source confirmed to The Denver Post on Thursday that Abrams-Draine and the team had agreed to terms on his four-year rookie contract. Abrams-Draine was selected No.

Bo Nix finally has a jersey number. The Broncos rookie quarterback will wear No. 10 during the 2024 season, the team announced Thursday. The number originally belonged to quarterback Zach Wilson, who will now wear No. 4. Jarrett Stidham will wear No. 8, a number he wore while playing at Auburn, after donning No.

A backcountry skier who triggered an avalanche in a Whistler Cliffs snow chute near Interstate 70 and the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels was partially buried and injured in the snowslide on April 30. The skier triggered the avalanche near the Whistler Cliffs area south of Coon Hill in a snow chute — a steep and narrow gully on a mountainside between two rock walls — according to a field report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. The snowslide gained speed and mass as it ran through the chute, catching the skier from behind, the report stated. Before the avalanche, the skier was descending an open area above the chute on the mountainside, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said.

Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray took responsibility Wednesday for throwing objects in the direction of an official during a playoff game, attempting to deflect follow-up questions about the incident and emphasizing that he has moved on. “It is what it is,” he said when asked about his punishment from the NBA, a $100,000 fine but no accompanying suspension.

Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders was specific last month when asked what he and his staff would target in the transfer portal. Depth was the main key, but he mentioned particular spots the Buffaloes wanted to fill, including in the middle of the defense. “A couple linebackers are gonna come in,” he said on April 18, putting a heavy emphasis on making that plural. CU has now added two linebackers since Coach Prime’s comment that day. On Tuesday, former Florida A&M standout Johnny Chaney Jr.

There wasn’t some unexpectedly robust growth spurt, as was the case with Derrick White after he left Parker’s Legend High School for Division II UCCS. And while Elijah Malone may have played at a small high school, college recruiters don’t tend to overlook northern Indiana. Malone has no good explanation as to why his best collegiate hoops option was Grace College, an NAIA program roughly an hour from his home in LaGrange, Ind.