The NFL announced the top 25 performance-based pay distributions for 2023. In total, these top 25 players will receive a payout of approximately $394 million dollars. According to 9NEWS' Mike Klis, rush linebacker Jonathon Cooper and right guard Quinn Meinerz are the two Denver Broncos players who earned the biggest performance-based bonuses.
The Denver Broncos have a few players whose contracts expire after the 2024 season. While the Broncos should be in a better position as far as the salary cap goes, they won't be able to keep everyone.
Denver Broncos outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper has recorded a sack in three straight games and he now leads the team with 8.5 sacks in 2023. With 1.5 more sacks against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, Cooper would become the team’s first pass rusher to record 10 sacks since 2018.
If Sunday night's clash between the Denver Broncos and the visiting New England Patriots proves anything, it might just be how much truly can change over the course of a decade.
After their Week 6 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, the Denver Broncos would have owned the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft if the season ended then. They had a record of 1-5 with a point differential of -71 and were one of the league’s biggest laughingstocks.
It’s finally over. After 16 straight defeats, the Denver Broncos finally snapped their losing streak to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday with a 24-9 win.
Jonathon Cooper has given Broncos Country reasons to celebrate in a season where those have been far and in between. Just six games into the season, Cooper has already reached a career-best sack total with four.
Last year, nine of the Denver Broncos’ 12 losses were by one score, including a pair of one-point defeats. That unfortunate trend of losing close games seems to have carried over into 2023, as the Broncos fell to the Las Vegas Raiders 17-16 in Week 1.
Jonathon Cooper made the leap from being a Denver Broncos seventh-round draft pick to earning a starting job at outside linebacker in Year 3. Factoring
Denver Broncos outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper continues to take big strides this offseason as he looks to evolve into a game-changing pass rusher. When you watch Cooper at practice, or more recently during the team’s first preseason game, his explosive get-off stands out like a sore thumb.
Can Jonathan Cooper take the next step in 2023? Jonathon Cooper has impressed as a depth player for the Denver Broncos for the first two years of his career.
Patrick Mahomes executed a couple of kneel downs to run off the final time on the clock. As time expired and the game ended, players got into it. You can see Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett yelling at his players to move out of the way. Andy Reid was seen getting in the mix as well.
After a slow start to the season, Jonathon Cooper performed his best game of the year against the Baltimore Ravens last week. It’s nothing short of a miracle that Cooper is even in the NFL right now.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is out, but his season is not over. Jackson sprained his left knee in the first quarter Sunday against the Denver Broncos, but Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said the injury is not season-ending.
The Broncos’ 2022 contingent of edge-rushers presents intrigue, even if it is the first in 12 years not to include Von Miller.
The injury will require surgery, but there is optimism Cooper will be ready for training camp.
On the bright side, 12 players were activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list.
Jonathon Cooper has had an up-and-down stint with the Broncos through his rookie season, so far. Flashing massively in the preseason, not performing to fans’ expectations early in the regular season, and then finally coming back around as of late, his very inconsistent play has left many fans questioning just how good he can be.
The Denver Broncos selected Ohio State defensive end Jonathon Cooper with the 239th pick in the 2021 NFL draft. This was a surprise draft-day slide for a talented player, and the Broncos seem to be reaping the benefits.
Miller, 32, is in the final months of the six-year, $114.1 million extension he signed with the Broncos at the 2016 franchise-tag deadline.
Broncos Country doesn’t have to look that deep to unearth feel-good stories on this year’s 53-man roster especially since rookie rush linebacker Jonathon Cooper made the squad after an outstanding preseason.
Over the first five days of practice, Denver Broncos' rookie rush linebacker Jonathon Cooper was mostly quiet. He had some plays here and there, but never really had that one big day.
The younger Surtain became the most significant piece of a Broncos cornerback overhaul.
Cooper was taken with the No. 239 pick in the draft by the Denver Broncos.
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