Broncos Mailbag: Does Denver have any trade candidates as roster cutdown approaches?

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season and periodically during the offseason Click here to submit a question Which on-the-bubble players have enough value to be traded before or at final cutdown Ed Helinski Auburn N Y Hi Parker with the depth the Broncos have at several position groups do you see any opportunity to commerce anyone for future draft picks Thanks Brandon Brown Rogers Minn Thanks to Ed and Brandon for the trade-related questions that get us going And pardon the slight hiatus the past couple of weeks in the mailbag We ve been pushing to get The Post s preseason Broncos magazine finished which it now is It s got a ton of good stuff in it and is out Aug Make sure you find a copy OK on to the trade-related question There hasn t been much buzz so far about specific players but let s use several common sense to help at least guide this conversation In an ideal world if you ve got a participant you A know won t make your -man roster and B would be in demand around the league you d love to get something for that member rather than losing him on waivers And typically the buyer would be a organization toward the bottom of the waiver order like Philadelphia two years ago when they swapped picks with Denver for tight end Albert Okwuegbunam and doesn t think it will be in position to win a waiver claim It s also fundamental to remember that far fewer players get claimed than is normally assumed and that a lot of hand-wringing gets done over players who ultimately clear waivers and end up on the practice squad One example Just because the Broncos have more running backs than they can keep doesn t mean they can just exchange one The Broncos have considerable depth at two positions that are almost reliably in high demand Cornerback and defensive line So if a club called about Jordan Jackson or Eyioma Uwazurike Denver would be in position to listen You d have to imagine there s teams out there that look at a guy like Kris Abrams-Draine or Ja Quan McMillian and wonder if they could pry one away from coach Sean Payton and general manager George Paton But there s also reason for caution The Broncos saw what it looked like last year when their depth at cornerback was tested It wasn t pretty and it was part of the reason they were so excited to draft Jahdae Barron at No Payton s continually lauded that group this summer and gushed about how the majority teams don t have five or six guys who can cover So would you really arrangement from that depth to get a draft pick next spring Maybe they could be convinced but the bet here is it would take serious convincing Teams with Super Bowl aspirations typically aren t in a big hurry to get rid of good players Renck vs Keeler Should Broncos rookie Jahdae Barron start over vet Ja Quan McMillian This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e statistics if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i