When the Broncos signed Randy Gregory in March 2022, they hoped for a career surge.
They tried to guard against the opposite.
They probably couldn’t have imagined, even for a player who had missed so much time to injury and suspension in his career, that it would end like this.
The Gregory era in Denver ended unceremoniously Wednesday when the team informed him of his impending release following four ineffective games. He lost his starting job to Nik Bonitto on Sunday and his spot on the roster three days later.
Even considering general manager George Paton and everybody else involved knew giving Gregory big money carried risk, moving on from the 30-year-old a month into the second season of a five-year deal goes down as a major disappointment and a considerable financial mistake.