Two Broncos outside linebackers represent the team on a pair of lists released this week. Weakside linebacker Wesley Woodyard was named to USA Today’s All-Joe Team and strongside linebacker Von Miller earned a spot on NFL.com’s All-Under-25 Team.
Woodyard led the Broncos with 114 tackles and tied for the team lead with three interceptions in 2012. He earned his first AFC Defensive Player of the Week award following his performance against New Orleans in which he became just the ninth player since 1982 to record at least 10 tackles, one sack, one interception and one forced fumble in the same game.
Also in 2012, Woodyard became the first Broncos linebacker since Al Wilson in 2004 to record multiple interceptions in a season and joined Hall-of-Fame running back Floyd Little as the only players in team history to serve as a captain in their first five seasons with the club.
“You won’t find many NFL linebackers who are 6 feet tall and 229 pounds,” USA Today wrote about the five-year veteran. “Other than Woodyard, you won’t find anyone in the last five seasons who managed to make 100 tackles, five sacks and three interceptions in one season.”
Miller earned his selection after setting the Broncos’ single-season sacks record with 18.5 quarterback takedowns in 2012. He became the first Bronco to earn Pro Bowl selections in each of his first two NFL seasons and was named an Associated Press All-Pro after finishing in the top five in sacks, quarterback knockdowns, quarterback hurries, tackles for a loss, run stuffs and forced fumbles in the league during his second NFL season.
The 2011 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year tallied 24.5 sacks in his first 25 career games, which ranked second in NFL history behind Derrick Thomas (25.0) in a player’s first first 25 career games.
“In two NFL seasons, Miller has 30 sacks,” NFL.com wrote about the 23-year old linebacker. “He’s an athletic mismatch for anyone trying to stop him in pass protection, and he’s no slouch against the run. Every team is looking for the next Miller.”
Tags: All-Joe Team, Von Miller, Wesley Woodyard
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Doing well over here, getting excited for the Combine. Looks like you ruffled some feathers with ‘Operation JClown’… Lol
well i had all the intention of blogging today and one phone call completely changed my whole day! anyway the house is coming along great strand and i swear i’m gonna post some pics somehow soon. and i gotta say turtle i do feel completely vindicated. how on earth could the qb position be better than it is for us. manning is as good as it gets and he plays for us. not only that but he immersed himself in the community and is doing everything he can to be a good member of the denver broncos. of course i feel vindicated. we are favorites to win the superbowl, he had the best year a bronco qb has had, he was comeback player of the year, of course i feel vindicated. the fact we lost in the playoffs doesnt change any of that and you, again, are not fooling me. your arguments against manning are shallow and a little desperate, because despite your attempts to marginalize him theres no doubt what he is. pretending he’s not to get people going is funny, but not substantive. sorry. but i do like debating so bring it on!
i’m not sure i would want charles woodson on the team, i think moore will be fine and carter will round out our safety position. woodson would have to be a situational player and i’m not sure he’ll do that. i would love to have revis but cant see him being worth what he will demand cash wise. in the draft i just hope we get a dt with the first pick. there will be some dang good ones on the board at #28 and if we pass on that i’ll be pissed. the lattimore thing is interesting and i honestly dont know if i’d want to draft him. I was watching that game he hurt his knee and man that looked like something no one could ever come back from. he’s young and medicine is amazing these days but wow that was nasty. its getting closer and closer and now path to the draft will be airing soon so i’m getting all pumped up about draft weekend. cant wait! GO BRONCOS!!
Nice Lou… The only stat that really matters is 9-11 career post season… We had a top 5 offense and Defense and somehow couldn’t win a playoff game!
I cheered for him all season, and will again if we are ‘Stuck’ with him, but the odds of him overcoming his post-season Floppery is less and less likely with every quarter he has to go endure… He got hurt in that playoff game, after a pretty standard sack, and that cost us the game… We play to win, and any excuse for not doing so is just that, an excuse…
Regular Season Success might impress the peanut gallery… but not us regular Joe Blow Fans that bleed Orange and Blue
Glad you’re back… it was awful quiet!
OT, I was having a great time with Operation JCLown!!! Revoke the Choke! LOL… but then it went and got all personal! hehe… but it is better than reading the same post that were there the day before, we are getting close to 100 for the day! in February…
SCORE
The AVS have been scoring machines lately, but the D is as bad as the O has been good…. who loses a 4-1 lead? This team (The AVS) is getting better… Fun to watch at least
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000140187/article/buccaneers-daquan-bowers-arrested-on-gun-charge
New York is not the place to commit a gun Crime… he is going to go to jail like Plax did
Hopefully for Da’Quan’s sake, he wasn’t also drinking a soda over 16 ounces….
Don’t mess with Texas and don’t bring a gun to New York! Boers should have learned from Plax’s mistake.
*Bowers*
haha ot thats a good one. cant get busted with that either. and sorry i went to sleep a little early and missed yall. and turtle i do see your frustration with the loss and you are correct it is superbowl or bust but we have the team to do it now. the reason the d and o were so good was because of him. period. he makes the whole team better and i’m sorry but winning in the playoffs and the superbowl is just not something that happens very easy. it is not a good thing to have a losing record in the playoffs but that does not take away from what he does for a team. it was year one and we are disapointed already we didnt make it to the superbowl and i like that. shows what this team is now- we’re back to ‘superbowl’ mentality instead of the ‘i hope we have a winning record’ mentality we had just 2 short years ago. i guess i do have to cede to you i understand the point of not taking us all the way but in the scheme of things its a small blip in the whole of what has been done here. and its just starting. i do see one and maybe two superbowls before he leaves. but i guess until then we’ll have to agree to disagree over manning. as long as in the end i’m right….
No need to apologize Lou… We are all aware of the difficulties of winning a championship! When we as a Fan base are told that there is no ‘Plan B’… and Plan A goes exactly according to script, right down to the finest detail of winning meaningless Regular season game then coming up short in the Playoffs when it matters then there is a serious issue…
I understand that Peyton is a Quality Quarterback. I have never questioned his talent. I questioned his health, and I was proven mistaken during the season, and many times during the season I openly appologized for being pessimistic, however I never waivered from my issue with Peyton in Crunch time… Peyton was injured in our Playoff game… and again, when a player needs to be special to get it done, Peyton comes up very average… We will no doubt have a quality squad, but in honesty Lou, the only way you will be right in the end is if PDog undogs it in the Playoffs and Brings us a Lombardi!!!
Hope for our Sake your right, and I have misread the evidence!!! (doubtful)
And I hope for EVERYONES sake we DRAFT SOME BEEEEEEF!!!!!
B-R-O-N-C-O-S BRONCOS BRONCOS BRONCOS!!!!
Lou… I see your way of thinking ‘this is only year one’… and in a standard instance of having a young/experienced QB it would be fine, but we have an Old, injury prone QB that has an established history of not getting it done even when he has all the tools to get it done…
If Peyton was young then I’d stand down and just wait patiently… but he’s not Young, he’s not middle age for a quaterback, he is Old… Elway is the only QB to win a Superbowl over 36 and he had TD and a Defense full of Studs…
Peyton can take a paycut, sign some more talent and take us to the Promised Land if he wants…. He wants to get paid, and he is getting paid. This situation is no where near what is was in ’97 because Peyton has a ring and is happy just being a Stat monster, or he would take steps to rectify the weaknesses on this squad. Elway took a paycut, and we stacked the roster and we won!
Peyton is our Quarterback, that is a fact. You are all entitled to your own oppinions, this is also a fact. all we can do is see what happens!!!
BEEF BEEF BEEF!!!!