Owen Daniels agrees to 3-year, $12M deal with Broncos
This isn't high school or college, where players have the same coach throughout.
This is the NFL where the shortest of playing careers can go through multiple coaches. Owen Daniels and Gary Kubiak are a unique case. Daniels is a 10-year player going on his third team.
For all 10 years and all three teams, Daniels' coach has been Kubiak. They're together again after the Broncos and Daniels reached an agreement Tuesday on a three-year, $12 million contract.
"That's been the pattern so far," said Daniels, minutes after arriving in Denver on Tuesday night. "It's been a lot of fun.He's an awesome coach, I've got a ton of respect for him. We seem to work well together."
Daniels, a two-time Pro Bowl tight end, will be introduced to the Broncos' region Wednesday with a news conference. Virgil Green, a four-year "blocking" tight end, was given his first news conference as a Bronco on Tuesday after he re-signed with the team on a three-year, $8.4 million contract.
He dressed for the occasion, wearing a black suit and a blue tie with a tight, double-Windsor knot. Pressed orange shirt. Big smile. And winter wool beanie. The beanie, Virgil?
"I've got my hair in braids and I didn't want to show it for the cameras," Green said, smiling while standing next to Marianne, his wife of two years.