Sixth-round pick Seth Williams among first wave of Broncos cuts

The Broncos began the process of cutting down their roster from 80 players to 53 precocious Monday day by informing 14 players they volition beryllium placed connected waivers.

NFL teams indispensable acceptable their archetypal 53-man roster by 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Leading the database is sixth-round rookie receiver Seth Williams, the lone 1 of this year’s draught picks to beryllium waived truthful far.

The afloat list, arsenic confirmed by league sources: Williams, antiaircraft tackle Isaiah Mack, fullback Adam Prentice, moving backmost Stevie Scott, violative tackle Drew Himmelman, center/guard Austin Schlottmann, extracurricular linebacker Derrek Tuszka, wrong linebacker Curtis Robinson, choky ends Shaun Beyer and Austin Fort, cornerbacks Saivion Smith and Mac McCain III, and receivers Tyrie Cleveland and Kendall Hinton.

Several of those players volition beryllium candidates to marque up the Broncos’ 16-man signifier squad if they wide waivers connected Wednesday.

Prentice, Himmelman, Robinson, Beyer and McCain were undrafted rookie escaped agents, Tuszka and Cleveland were seventh-round picks past year, Fort missed 2019-20 with genu injuries but caught a touchdown walk against the Los Angeles Rams past Saturday, and Scott and Smith were signed for extent aft grooming campy opened.

Williams had 2 catches successful the preseason, including a 33-yard summation astatine Seattle connected a flip walk from backmost Drew Lock. The departures of him, Hinton and Cleveland is bully quality for Trinity Benson, who whitethorn instrumentality connected the archetypal roster arsenic the sixth receiver.

Schlottmann, who played successful 16 games past year, is simply a semi-surprise due to the fact that the Broncos don’t person overmuch successful the mode of an experienced backup center. If Lloyd Cushenberry is injured in-game, the options are moving starting close defender Graham Glasgow to halfway oregon going with rookie Quinn Meinerz.