Guard · Denver Broncos

Ben Powers

No. 74 · 8th season

Ben Powers took less money to stay exactly where he wanted to be

There's a version of this story where a player quietly walks out the door when the money gets uncomfortable. Powers chose the other version.

He plays left guard for the Denver Broncos — one of the positions that never gets talked about, the kind of work that only gets noticed when something goes wrong. What is known about Powers in this moment is simple: he wanted to stay. When the Broncos came to him about restructuring his contract for less money, he said yes.

The new deal is for one year. Powers accepted a pay cut, which frees up salary cap space for Denver. The team gets financial flexibility; Powers gets to stay in the building he chose.

That trade-off is not nothing. Players take pay cuts for a lot of reasons — some because they have no other options, some because they genuinely want to be somewhere. The reporting here points to the latter.

Whatever happens this season, Powers will be in it. He made sure of that himself.

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