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Broncos potential owner tracker: Who will buy the team?

From Byron Allen to Peyton Manning to Kwanza Jones, many names have been linked to Broncos ownership. We are tracking all of the buzz here.

The Denver Broncos are officially up for sale and the team is expected to be sold for more than $4 billion. The Broncos are hoping to complete a sale before the 2022 NFL season, but the process could take months to finalize.

We will be tracking all of the latest developments on the ownership front on this page in the coming weeks and months.

Confirmed interest

1. Byron Allen
2. John Elway
3. Crypto group supported by Gov. Jared Polis

Reported interest

1. Alec Gores, Dean Metropoulos and Mat Ishbia
2. Behdad Eghbali, Jose Feliciano and Kwanza Jones
3. Josh Harris
4. Peyton Manning

Rumored interest

1. Kanye West
2. Jay-Z

Not interested, per reports

1. Robert F. Smith
2. Jeff Bezos

Pat Bowlen and his family purchased the Broncos from Edgar Kaiser in 1984. Bowlen stepped down from his day-to-day duties in 2014 due to his battle with Alzheimer’s disease, and he died in 2017.

Since Bowlen stepped down, the team has been controlled by the Pat Bowlen Trust, led in part by team president/CEO Joe Ellis. The team’s next owner will assume control of the team.

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Another billionaire linked to Broncos sale proves to be a false alarm

Jeff Bezos and Robert F. Smith are not interested in buying the Broncos, if reports are to be believed.

John Elway and Peyton Manning are both interested in becoming owners of the Denver Broncos, but neither of them could afford to buy the team on their own.

That’s why Elway and Manning want to join an ownership group as minority investors, presumably with a billionaire serving as the controlling owner.

Several big names have been linked to the team as potential new owners, but none of them have stuck so far. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been mentioned repeatedly, but Peter King of NBC Sports has reported Bezos is not interested in buying the team.

Rapper/businessman Jay-Z has also been linked to the Broncos, but KUSA-TV’s Mike Klis reported in September there were “no developments” on that front. It seems the Jay-Z buzz was merely speculation.

Last month, Front Office Sports reported that billionaire Robert F. Smith had “emerged as one of the possible bidders” to buy the team. That appears to have been a false alarm as well.

“He is not a potential buyer and is not planning on purchasing the Broncos,” an unnamed source told Klis in a story published Monday.

So we’ve had a lot of speculation, but no real action so far. Broncos Wire will continue tracking the team’s latest ownership developments in the coming weeks.

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