{"id":163845,"date":"2025-08-21T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163845\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:14:11","slug":"broncos-trade-wr-devaughn-vele-to-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163845\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos Trade WR Devaughn Vele To Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

We now have a three-trade Wednesday<\/a>, as Sean Payton<\/strong> will do business with Mickey Loomis<\/strong>. The Broncos are sending wide receiver Devaughn Vele<\/a><\/strong> to the Saints, NewOrleans.football\u2019s Nick Underhill reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Although Vele was only a seventh-round pick, he showed promise as a rookie. As a result, the Broncos will gain a strong return on investment. The Saints are sending the Broncos a 2026 fourth-round pick and a 2027 seventh-rounder, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reports<\/a>. The Broncos have since announced the trade.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: Full Rundown Of Traded 2026 Draft Picks]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Three years remain on Vele\u2019s rookie contract. The Broncos have seen promising preseason work from both Troy Franklin<\/a><\/strong> and rookie third-rounder Pat Bryant<\/a><\/strong>. With Bryant profiling as a big-bodied outside receiver, Vele\u2019s place in Denver\u2019s passing attack may well have been foggier as a result of the Illinois product\u2019s arrival. Now, he will join a Saints team that experienced significant injury trouble at receiver last year \u2014 but one that has now added multiple pieces in 2025.<\/p>\n

New Orleans spent much of last season without its top two receiving options \u2014 Chris Olave<\/a><\/strong> and Rashid Shaheed<\/a><\/strong>. Olave suffered two concussions and did not return during the team\u2019s late swoon following Derek Carr<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s season-ending injury. Shaheed played in only six games last year, suffering meniscus injury that required a full repair. Both starters are back for the Saints, who also reunited with<\/a> Brandin Cooks<\/a><\/strong> in free agency. Although New Orleans\u2019 starting quarterback has yet to be decided, either Spencer Rattler<\/a><\/strong> or Tyler Shough<\/a><\/strong> will have two new auxiliary WRs to target.<\/p>\n

In Vele, the Saints will land a 6-foot-5 wideout on a seventh-round contract. Vele is one of the older rookies in recent NFL history, however, in already being 27. He will turn 28 before season\u2019s end, complicating his prospects for a second contract down the line. For now, the Saints have him under control through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last season, Vele worked as the Broncos\u2019 second-most utilized receiver \u2014 behind only Courtland Sutton<\/a><\/strong>. As Franklin and Marvin Mims<\/a><\/strong> struggled with inconsistency, Vele logged a 53% snap share. The Utah product caught 41 passes for 475 yards and three touchdowns as a rookie.<\/p>\n

Payton\u2019s Saints years frequently involved a host of sidekick options alongside a clear No. 1 \u2014 be it Marques Colston<\/a><\/strong> or Michael Thomas<\/a><\/strong>. His second Broncos setup looks similar, with Mims, Franklin and Bryant set to complement the recently extended Sutton. With the Broncos also signing backup\/special-teamer Trent Sherfield<\/a><\/strong>, they suddenly had a bit of a logjam on their hands. The team has also used rookie UDFA Courtney Jackson<\/a> <\/strong>as a return man in the preseason; Jackson could have a path to a sixth WR spot with Vele gone.<\/p>\n

It is not known which Bronco will succeed Vele as the team\u2019s second-most utilized wideout, but Franklin \u2014 a 2024 fourth-round pick who played with Bo Nix<\/a><\/strong> at Oregon \u2014 looks like an interesting bet for that de facto WR2 role. Then again, Mims came on strong to close last season and drew WR2 buzz this summer<\/a>. After the Broncos passed on adding a veteran beyond Sherfield, they will count on the Mims-Franklin-Bryant contingent to the point Vele suddenly became expendable. This may still represent some risk for a Broncos team connected to supporting-cast wideouts for most of the offseason, but the return \u2014 and the early work from Franklin and Bryant \u2014 may have swayed team brass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We now have a three-trade Wednesday, as Sean Payton will do business with Mickey Loomis. The Broncos are…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8999,94415,9004,62,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-163845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-denver-broncos","9":"tag-devaughn-vele","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-transactions","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115066939916330430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}