Brandon Jones' signing gives the Denver Broncos four former Texas players from 2018 team
More than five years after suiting up together as Longhorns, a quartet of former Texas players find themselves together again, wearing a different shade of orange.
On Monday — the first day NFL teams could sign free agents this offseason — former Miami Dolphins safety Brandon Jones agreed to a three-year deal with the Denver Broncos. There he'll join former Longhorns Caden Sterns and P.J. Locke in the Broncos' secondary. Jones, Sterns and Locke all started in 2018 for Texas, the season that ended with the Sugar Bowl win over Georgia.
There are five Longhorns from that 2018 Texas team playing in Denver; wide receiver Lil'Jordan Humphrey also is on the Broncos roster.
Jones wasn't the only Longhorn to make free agency news on Monday. Linebacker Jordan Hicks will spend his 10th NFL season with the Cleveland Browns and wide receiver Devin Duvernay, who was an All-Pro kick returner for Baltimore, agreed to a deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Former #Saints DT Malcolm Roach is signing with the #Broncos on a two-year deal worth up to $8 million, per source. pic.twitter.com/9Y5NWlv7b8
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) March 12, 2024
UPDATE (3/12/24 at 12:30 p.m.): Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network reported on Tuesday that former New Orleans defensive lineman Malcolm Roach will also sign with Denver as a free agent. And if you were wondering if Roach played for the Texas Longhorns in 2018, he did.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas football will have four former 2018 players now Denver Broncos