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Broncos get Day 3 steal at RB with Utes’ Booker
- Updated: April 30, 2016
CHICAGO — Backfield help landed in Denver in the form of Utah running back Devontae Booker, a fourth-round pick of the Broncos announced at rain-soaked Grant Park in Chicago on Saturday afternoon.
Booker was the 136th pick in the three-day draft and after averaging 120.6 yards per game for the Utes, he should help the Broncos transition to a new quarterback in 2016.
Peyton Manning retired and Brock Osweiler bolted for much greener pastures as a free agent ($72 million over four years from the Houston Texans). That pushed vice president and general manager John Elway to acquire former first-round pick Mark Sanchez and trade up in the first round to select Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch.
In Booker, the Broncos have a true North-South plowhorse perfectly suited for the one-cut zone running scheme head coach Gary Kubiak employs. Booker joins C.J. Anderson and Ronnie Hillman in the Broncos’ backfield if he recovers from knee surgery. Booker, who …
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