CU Buffs · Apr 28, 2019
Winfree Drafted By Broncos; Others Sign FA Contracts
DENVER — "With the 187th pick of the 2019 NFL Draft, the Denver Broncos select…"
Those were the words that Phillip Lindsay didn't hear last year, but Saturday, as his former teammates began the fourth quarter of the Colorado Spring Game, that's exactly what happened for Juwann Winfree.
Winfree becomes the 272nd player drafted out of Colorado and the first wide receiver since Paul Richardson was drafted in the second round by the Seattle Seahawks in 2014. While the Broncos' history with the Buffs runs deep, Winfree is the first CU player drafted by the Broncos in almost 40 years, since Laval Short was drafted in the fifth round in 1980.