Eron Riley Signed By NY Jets Off Broncos Practice Squad

EFX had chance to promote him and opted for a PS S from the Falcons…Oh well.

Okay, maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but Eron was one of my favorite prospects since we signed him to the PS last year. Hope he gets a chance to do some work.

Unfortunate, but not dwelling anymore. Being positive from here on out.

come on EFX we didnt need a 5-11 strong safety

I like Eron and his upside, watch him become a star in NY:(

They should not have allowed Eron Riley to go anywhere after letting Lloyd go.

big snafu? doesn’t seem like a well designed part of the plan after moving lloyd. is this a xanders master stroke and i just don’t see it? hm…

while it sucks to see one of ours go. Its really not the end of the world. Unless some injury concerns happen he wouldn’t have had much impact on our team.

Be happy for him that he is getting a paycheck and an opportunity.

I really like watching him play, hope that he gets a shot at the active roster soon.

hopefully he doesn’t beat us

If the front office really cared, he would have been promoted off the practice squad three minutes after the Lloyd deal was done. Riley is truly a poor-man’s Brandon Lloyd? Then how sad is that if he’s the poor-man’s version of a guy we just tossed for a 6th rounder?

Eron had some good moments in pre-season, but that’s about it. The Jets reaching for anyone they can get is no shock; their passing game is abysmal. I’m surprised they didn’t make a play for Lloyd. Odds are the Denver didn’t lose anything in this event

I hate the freakin Jets soooooooo much….. I mean I hate them worse than getting disemboweled by a plastic spoon kinda hate. I had such high hopes for this kid….. I thought it went by order of record?

Riley was a good prospect. That was it. What I saw from him during the preseason didn’t impress me terribly. He has speed and that is it. His route running is not smooth or consistent which is one of the biggest things I look for and the thing that will make or break a WR in this league. His size / strength is not good enough to block in the run game (important for our offense).

I do agree that when we traded B. Lloyd we should have moved him to the active list, but it is no great loss that he has moved on. Willis is as fast if not faster than him and has much better all around skills to be completely honest with you. Take a deep breath people…it is going to be okay.

Nice one X. There’s a reason why nobody likes you.

Don Banks of SI is making the case that Kyle Orton would have been a better fit than Carson Palmer for the Raiduhs, don’t know what to make of that

But we are in no position to really judge him as a player. It’s the same story with Syd’quan – I was way excited about him after watching him last year in the preseason. But obviously the coaches look at a lot more than that – so I’ll trust them on these prospect decisions. It was easy to root for Eron & Squid – but the coaches know a lot more about them than we do, so I default to trusting them until it proves to be a bad decision later.

Maybe they just got outbid. (Of course, I don’t know either, but I’m not whining about it.)

Don’t you have the option to sign the player another team is intending to sign? They contact him and say they want to hire him off the practice squad. Don’t the Broncos have the option to promote him? Coudln’t they have taken someone else off the roster to make room for him?

GO BRONCOS!!!

he deserves to be on a roster. I’m happy for the guy.

Our best inactive WR. I’m sure Mark Dell figures more in the long term plans than Riley, but he’s on IR right now.

Is this bad for us? It is if you got attached to the kid. This place has seemed to become a wide receiver factory the last couple of years, as pointed out to me by a few of my non-bronco fan co-workers. The loss of Riley is not what what bothers me. It is just that this shows what good teams do to make themselves better in areas where they need it. The Jets have issues at WR so they try to improve theirs. We need to get better at CB and OL, even if it is just depth, but we sit and fart around with mostly safeties and linebackers, with very few of these moves making any sense. This is not a good team obviously, but it is showing with the GM right now.

Any chance that teams will sign our PS players to get a grasp on what they’ll see against Tebow?

   To start with I, like so many here, fell in love with Eron Riley’s potential this preseason and am sad that we have lost him. I imagined him becoming the next Rod Smith, a player who spends a season or two on the practice squad and earns his way on to the team and has a Hall of Fame worthy career. Realistically though, how likely was that to happen? Possible, but not not very likely. Not very many practice squad players ever contribute much. No I don’t have the stats to back up that statment, but if you have stats that disprove my statement, bring ‘em on. However, I am pretty confident in the validity of my statement.
    For those of you who are upset that we lost him b/c we chose to sign a 5’11" Safety off someone else’s practice squad to replace Loyd on the active roster (I am too), but remember we are a little short of healthy bodies in the back end.
   I hope Eron defies the odds and has a great career, preferably back here in Denver wearing the Orange, but if not, wherever he ends up.

And we have no chance now this Sunday because of our practice squad shuffle. Woe is us, we’ll have to make do with roster players. Dang.

He sure looked good in preseason, and gets a nice roster spot on the Jets. Jets seem panicky, this season. It’s surprising they found out Riley, but it’s great for Riley to be able
to suit up for an NFL team. I think he’s going to make it in this league.

Good for Riley. Time to get paid real NFL dollars.

We poached Riley from the Ravens. The Jets poached him from us. So it goes. Not every hobo has a golden voice.