Well, you don’t see this often.
The Denver Broncos have released veteran kicker Brandon McManus. The source of that news? McManus himself.
“The @Broncos have informed me I’ve been released. More to come in the following days,” McManus tweeted from his official Twitter account on Tuesday.
The move will save the team between $2.5 million and $3.75 million in salary cap space, depending on whether or not it is designated as a post-June 1 roster cut.
McManus, 31, joined the team in 2014 after brief stints with the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants. McManus became Denver’s full-time kicker in 2015 and he went a perfect 10-of-10 on field goal attempts in the playoffs that year as the Broncos went on to win the Super Bowl.
McManus had been the last remaining player on the roster from the team’s Super Bowl 50 win. He will now become a free agent and will likely draw interest from several teams.
McManus converted 81.4% of his field goal attempts in nine years in Denver and 96.9% of his extra point attempts. His 946 career points rank second on the team’s all-time scoring list only behind Jason Elam’s 1,786 points.
Unless the team hopes to re-sign McManus on a cheaper contract, the team will now be in the market for a new kicker. There are currently no other kickers on the team’s 90-man offseason roster.
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