Tag: C.J. Anderson

C.J. Anderson was the best player to wear No. 22 for the Broncos

Super Bowl 50 champion C.J. Anderson totaled 3,910 scrimmage yards and scored 24 touchdowns in five seasons (58 games) with the Broncos.

C.J. Anderson was the best player to ever wear No. 22 for the Denver Broncos, but there’s a pretty significant honorable mention.

Glyn Milburn was a running back and returner for the Broncos from 1993-1995. He earned a Pro Bowl nod and a second-team All-Pro selection in 1995 after totaling 1,623 return yards. After three years in Denver, he went on to play for four other teams and earned another Pro Bowl selection and a first-team All-Pro nod with the Chicago Bears in 1999.

Milburn was a skilled returner for the Broncos, but Anderson arguably had a bigger impact during his five-year run with the team (2013-2017). After signing with Denver as an undrafted free agent out of California in 2013, Anderson later emerged as a key running back for the Broncos in 2014 and earned a Pro Bowl nod.

Anderson rushed for 720 yards and five touchdowns during the 2015 season and he scored the team’s only offensive touchdown in their 24-10 win over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50.

In five years (58 games) with the Broncos, Anderson totaled 3,910 yards from scrimmage and scored 24 touchdowns. He went on to spend time with four other teams from 2018-2019 before hanging up his cleats with 4,397 career yards and 27 touchdowns on his resume.

Shout out to C.J. Anderson, a Super Bowl champion and the best player to ever wear No. 22 in Denver.

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C.J. Anderson would like to join Broncos’ coaching staff

C.J. Anderson would like to join the Broncos’ coaching staff.

Former Denver Broncos running back C.J. Anderson would love an opportunity with coach Sean Payton.

Anderson played five years with the Broncos, rushing for 3,051 yards and 20 rushing touchdowns in 58 games. He was a key member of the team’s Super Bowl 50 run in 2015, and he had a 1,000-yard season in 2017.

Anderson, who was recently let go as a running backs coach at Rice University, is now interested in returning to Denver as a coach. Before coaching at Rice, Anderson was a volunteer assistant at his alma mater, California in 2020, and was the head coach of Monte Vista High School in 2021.

While the Broncos have filled many of their coaching positions, running backs coach is a slot that is yet to be filled. Former running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley left the team to become the head coach of Wayne State University earlier this offseason.

Anderson was a fan favorite in Denver, and fans would undoubtedly like to see him back on the team in some type of coaching role.

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Rice parts ways with running backs coach C.J. Anderson

C.J. Anderson, who won Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos, coached RBs at Rice in 2022. He’s now a free agent coach.

C.J. Anderson’s time as a coach at Rice University has come to an end.

Rice parted ways with several members of its football staff this week, including running backs coach C.J. Anderson, according to a report from KPRC-TV’s Aaron Wilson.

Cameron Montgomery led the Owls with 561 rushing yards last season. Juma Otoviano ranked second with 403 yards and two total touchdowns.

Anderson, who won Super Bowl 50 with the Denver Broncos in 2015, started his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at California, his alma mater, in 2020. Anderson then spent a season as the head coach at Monte Vista High School in 2021 before joining Rice ahead of the 2022 season.

Anderson is now a coaching free agent and the Broncos have a running backs coach opening after Tyrone Wheatley left the team to become the head coach of Wayne State University. Becoming a RBs coach at the NFL level just four years after getting into coaching would be a big jump, so Anderson would presumably be more likely to join as an assistant if Denver goes that route.

Anderson, 32, played in three Super Bowls during his seven-year career in the NFL from 2013-2019. He totaled 4,397 yards from scrimmage and scored 27 touchdowns while playing for the Broncos, Carolina Panthers, Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions.

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Broncos’ Super Bowl 50 roster: Where are the offensive players now?

Peyton Manning often shows up on TV. What happened to the team’s other players from Super Bowl 50? Here’s a quick recap.

Denver Broncos kicker Brandon McManus is the team’s only player remaining on the roster from their Super Bowl 50 team, and he’s one of just a handful of players from that 2015 roster who are still in the NFL.

Elsewhere on special teams from that season, long snapper Aaron Brewer now plays for the Arizona Cardinals and punter Britton Colquitt is a free agent. On defense, all but two of the team’s starters from Super Bowl 50 are now out of the NFL.

The offense is similar, with just one player from that championship roster currently on an NFL roster.

Here’s a quick look at all of the team’s offensive starters from Super Bowl 50 and where they are now.

Twitter reacts to C.J. Anderson’s retirement

Here’s how Twitter reacted when C.J. Anderson retired from the NFL.

Former Denver Broncos running back C.J. Anderson has retired after seven years in the NFL. Here’s a sampling of how Twitter reacted to the news.

Anderson plans to now become a coach in college football.

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Ex-Broncos RB C.J. Anderson retires after 7-year NFL career

C.J. Anderson won Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos.

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Former Denver Broncos running back C.J. Anderson has retired after a seven-year career in the NFL, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Anderson, 29, entered the league as an undrafted free agent out of Cal with the Broncos in 2013. Denver reached Super Bowl XLVIII in Anderson’s rookie season but he had just three touches in a 43-8 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

In his second season, Anderson earned a Pro Bowl nod after gaining 1,173 yards from scrimmage and scoring 10 touchdowns. The following year, Anderson gained 100 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown in a 24-10 win over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50.

Anderson missed half of the 2016 season with an injury but bounced back in 2017, rushing for 1,007 yards and three touchdowns. The Broncos opted to move on from Anderson in 2018 after drafting Royce Freeman and signing Phillip Lindsay as an undrafted free agent.

Anderson had brief stints with the Panthers and Oakland Raiders in 2018 before landing with the Los Angeles Rams late in the season. He went on to reach Super Bowl LIII with L.A., the third Super Bowl of his career. In that game, Anderson totaled 34 yards from scrimmage in a 13-3 loss to the New England Patriots.

Last year, Anderson played in two games with the Detroit Lions, rushing 16 times for 43 yards. He’s retiring with 3,497 rushing yards, 22 rushing touchdowns, 900 receiving yards and five receiving scores on his resume.

Anderson told Schefter he now plans to become a college football coach.

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Top 10 Broncos moments from the past decade

The 2010s are just about behind us. Here is a look back at the top moments of the decade for the Denver Broncos.

With the close of the Denver Broncos’ 2019 season, we also get set to close out an entire decade.

Between 2010 and 2019, the Broncos had some very up-and-down seasons, experiencing the ultimate success and some of the worst years in franchise history across the past decade.

Over the past 10 seasons, the Broncos had an 89-71 win-loss record, which is pretty good considering they closed the decade with three straight losing seasons.

But here, we’re only going to focus on the positive and give you a chance to relive the best moments from the past 10 years. With that, we present the top 10 Broncos moments from the past decade.

Honorable mention: Von Miller becomes sack king

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For nearly 25 years, Simon Fletcher sat atop the team’s record book, finishing his playing career with 97.5 career sacks. It became clear years ago that as long as he stayed in Denver, Miller would break that record.

He accomplished the feat in December 2018 with a sack of Baker Mayfield of the Cleveland Browns, taking Fletcher out of the top spot.

This likely would have made the top 10 if it didn’t occur during one of the worst Broncos seasons in franchise history, a fact that really seemed to take from the moment.

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WATCH: C.J. Anderson wasn’t happy with how Seahawks added Marshawn Lynch

NFL free agent C.J. Anderson is seemingly fed up with the politics of football after the Seattle Seahawks passed on him Monday.

NFL free agent C.J. Anderson is seemingly fed up with the politics of football after the Seattle Seahawks passed on him Monday.

The team was looking for two running backs to fill the spots left by Chris Carson and C.J. Procise, both of whom suffered season-ending injuries Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals.

Seattle worked out a handful of players — including Anderson — along with former Seahawks Marshawn Lynch and Robert Turbin. Seattle went with the two familiar faces, despite Anderson being the only player of the three to actually see the field this season.

He aired his frustrations on Twitter Monday night, saying he’s “done with ball.”

It’s unclear what happened on April 9, 2017, but Anderson checked in again Tuesday morning to say he’s back on track:

NFL free agent C.J. Anderson says he’s done with football (Seahawkswire)

NFL free agent C.J. Anderson is seemingly fed up with the politics of football after the Seattle Seahawks passed on him Monday.

NFL free agent C.J. Anderson is seemingly fed up with the politics of football after the Seattle Seahawks passed on him Monday.