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Published on 02/18/2011 at Fri Feb 18 18:17.
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Broncos Attempted to Trade Harris

Posted Fri Feb 18th by

Ryan Harris defends Kyle Orton against Shaun Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Ryan Harris defends Kyle Orton against Shaun Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

It’s a common thing amongst fans of the Denver Broncos lately to debate the personnel moves made while former head coach Josh McDaniels had the reigns.

Time is still the only truth teller and eventually history will prove whether the trades of Jay Cutler, Brandon Marshall, Tony Scheffler and Alphonso Smith were best for the Broncos.

Our good friend Josina Anderson is reporting (via FootballProsLive) that in 2010 Denver also attempted to trade tackle Ryan Harris. According to Anderson the teams that were involved in trade talks were the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins [edit note: of course], Houston Texans [another of course], and the Chicago Bears [how many bridges did the team burn?].

Harris was made aware of the Broncos attempts to trade him following Denver’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens. According to Anderson’s source the Bears were reportedly most interested [but probably were weary of sending more draft picks to Denver after the Cutler trade].

Harris stated:

“I like being a Denver Bronco, but the choice is not up to me whether I stay. I’ve proven myself every year that I have been in the NFL, and I don’t have a problem doing that here or anywhere else.”

Sounds like the man wants to stay and with a return to featuring the running game Harris is a perfect fit; he’s also an injury concern, the likeliest reason that McDaniels wanted to deal him in favor of starting rookie Zane Beadles in his place.

Now what do you say Nation? Are the Broncos better with or without Harris?

  • 5280

    Better. we should ride him out till his legs fall off. that what we should of done with weigman too, but ol' joshy wanted a power scheme with big fat bahemouths who arent nimble what so ever. so we traded him away to the chiefs(and we all know how their running game faired because of that) to start a rookie(walton)without signing any depth at that position after him. with all the other need we have right now on the defencive side of the ball, i say keep the big men where they are and focus on taking care of what we need most(DL's, LB's, and saftys) and maybe next offseason we plug in more talent on the OL.

  • Doom92

    With… With out question I think…

  • Elryo4208

    keep em. are you kidding me. dude can pull and run, hence the last few games he returned for and the broncos averaged almost two yards a carry with him in the game. got to resign. best tackle next to clady

  • Elryo4208

    keep em. are you kidding me. dude can pull and run, hence the last few games he returned for and the broncos averaged almost two yards a carry with him in the game. got to resign. best tackle next to clady