Broncos' Week in Review: Kubiak talks, Von dances and Norwood re-signs

We’re another week into free agency and another week closer to the NFL Draft, which begins with the first round April 28 in Chicago.

In any case, here’s a look at back at the week that was in Broncos Country:

Headline: Gary Kubiak meets with the media at the owners meetings in Florida

Bottom line: Of particular interest were the coach’s admission that he’s embracing the challenge to try to become only the third repeat Super Bowl champion in the last 20 years. Kubiak’s comments on QB Trevor Siemian also were revealing as it sounds like the second-year player will very much be in the mix for a start no matter who else is signed or drafted.

 Headline: Von Miller debuts on Dancing with the Stars, trades, social media barbs with Tom Brady and takes a helicopter across Los Angeles to attend Texas A&M’s Sweet 16 hoops game

Bottom line: Yawn – just another week in the whirlwind offseason of the NFL’s newest megastar. But what Broncos Country wants to know is when – or if – we’ll see the Super Bowl 50 MVP at the team’s spring off-season workouts, which begin April 18. The last two Orange & Blue high-profile franchise-tagged players, Ryan Clady and Demaryius Thomas, stayed away from OTAs as their long-term deals were being hammered out. Miller originally said he expected contract talks to be “peaceful,” but it’s definitely far from a favorable thing for the Broncos that the All-Pro’s price tag keeps climbing in light of the other big money being thrown around on the market for lesser talents. Stay tuned (and we’re not just talking about DTWS) …

Headline: The Broncos re-sign free-agent wideout Jordan Norwood

Bottom line: The slot receiver only caught 22 passes for 207 yards and no scores last season, but Norwood holds increasing value as a punt returner – witness his record 61-yard return in the Super Bowl – especially if free-agent Omar Bolden leaves to become the latest member of the Chicago Broncos, er, Bears.

Headline: The Browns sign QB Robert Griffin III, whom the Broncos only had a slight interest in

Bottom line: Nah, the Broncos weren’t going to sign RGIII – they never were close to bringing him in for a visit – but what it does is open the door a little wider on the team’s chances of acquiring two other quarterbacks. In signing Griffin, the Browns are essentially out of the Colin Kaepernick trade sweepstakes, leaving the Broncos as the primary pursuer there. The signing – and the reports that Cleveland still plans to draft a QB (either Carson Wentz or Jared Goff) with the second-overall pick in the draft – leaves Josh McCown the odd man out  in Lake Erie Land. Now McCown will turn 37 on July 4 and would be playing with his fourth team in four seasons if he lands with another franchise but he’s played decently in two of his last three stops (in Chicago and Cleveland) and nearly all QB possibilities are going to remain on the table until the Orange & Blue make another move to give Siemian and Mark Sanchez some company on the roster.