Dymonte Thomas waited out the clock on Broncos cut day with last year’s painful memory still fresh. The undrafted free-agent safety thought he’d make the 53-man roster in 2017.
Hewas wrong.
“I got that call. Your heart just drops and they tell you to bring in the playbook,” Thomas said. “This year, I was a little nervous thinking, ‘Maybe they don’t need me?’”
His teammate in Denver’s defensive backfield, Will Parks, made the Broncos’ roster in each of his first two seasons as a late-round draft choice. But the reserve safety understood one universal NFL truth: “At the end of the day, they’ll get rid of anybody.