No wonder Jerry Jeudy wants out of town so badly.
Did you see Randy Gregory’s San Francisco debut during the Niners’ 19-17 loss at Cleveland last weekend? If you’ve got a week stomach, you might not want to look back: One game, one sack, two tackles for losses, three quarterback hits.
Now to frame those numbers in Orange and Blue glasses, that puts the veteran pass-rusher on a pace over 10 games with the 49ers to amass 10 sacks, 20 TFLs and 30 QB hits.
In 10 games with the Broncos, the former Nebraska star and Jerry Jones cult hero totaled just three sacks, four tackles for loss and nine quarterback hits.
All of which got the Grading The Week kids thinking: Was it Gregory? Or was it … us? (And by “us,” we mean Sean Payton.)
Ex-Broncos thriving yet again — D.
If a 1-5 start at Dove Valley isn’t enough of a pain in the backside of Broncos Country, take a gander at how a few notable ex-Denverites have fared in their new NFL towns lately. Or don’t. You’ll feel better.
Our old pal Graham Glasgow, released this past March after 37 injury-married games at guard and center for the Broncos, is back with the Lions, having made four starts over the Motor City Kitties’ first six games. As of Oct. 10, the former Michigan product sported Pro Football Focus’ second-highest grade at guard (83.3) in the NFL, trailing only Dallas’ Tyler Smith. Also, the Lions are 5-1. Also also, they host the Broncos on Dec. 17.
Bronco-for-a-blink Jacob Martin, the former Cherokee Trail standout, has appeared in six games for the Colts as a situational pass-rusher after being cut by Payton this past May. Martin’s recorded a sack, two TFLs and two QB hits in 70 defensive snaps with Indy. In five appearances with the Broncos last fall, Martin logged 108 snaps, a sack, two TFLs and one QB hit.
And if Gregory’s debut doesn’t turn the stomach a little, we bring you Brandon McManus’ stat line: In his first season as the Jaguars’ PK1 after getting cut by the Broncos this past May, the popular former Denver kicker has made good on 13 of his first 15 field-goal attempts and all 18 of his extra-point tries.
More knife-twisting: McManus is 10-for-11 from 49 yards in or closer, and two outta three on his tries from 50-plus — including a 56-yard make, his longest since 2021.
But it’s fine. No, no. Really. Everything’s fine.
Coach Prime’s QB recruiting — A.
Anybody who doesn’t work for Amazon or Michael Strahan who tells you they know how long Deion Sanders is staying in Boulder is probably lying through their teeth. (If you’re setting the numbers at 2.5 years, most of the GTW team is taking the “under” right now.) But those who see a post-Shedeur and post-Travis-Hunter future for Coach Prime in Boulder got a feather in their caps Friday when four-star QB prospect Antwann Hill Jr. told On3.com that he was committing to the Buffs. 247Sports.com’s No. 6 quarterback nationally and 11th-ranked prospect out of Georgia for the Class of ’25, Hill was among the celebrities on hand for Friday night under the lights at Folsom Field last weekend, meaning the Buffs got something out of that painful overtime to loss to Stanford after all. Most notably, it gives them, potentially, an arm to build around after Shedeur enters the NFL draft — whether that’s next spring or the spring after that.
