Denver RB involved in crash
Denver Broncos running back De’Angelo Henderson is recovering from minor shoulder and ankle injuries he sustained over the weekend when his Jeep was hit by a driver fleeing police in a stolen vehicle.
KCNC-TV in Denver reported that a 36-year-old woman was in custody after she allegedly struck several vehicles while evading police Saturday night in Parker, Colo., sending four people to the hospital, where they were held overnight.
Henderson discussed the crash on his Instagram page Monday and called it “the most traumatic event I’ve probably ever had to deal with.” He thanked the Parker Police Department and South Metro Fire Rescue as well as the doctors who treated him at Parker Adventist hospital.
He said he was “T-boned, airborne, flipped, and rolled” in the accident but was able to get himself out of his damaged Jeep and suffered only “minor injuries with a few scrapes and bruises.”
“I’m very grateful and humbled to be alive,” Henderson wrote. “… My thoughts and prayers are with the other victims and I hope they are all safe and doing well.”
Team spokesman Patrick Smyth said Henderson was back at team headquarters Monday preparing for next week’s on-field work in which the offense and defense will square off for the first time this offseason. Henderson will compete with Devontae Booker and rookie Royce Freeman for carries in the Broncos’ backfield this season.
Henderson was the star of training camp last summer but was buried on the depth chart behind C.J. Anderson, Jamaal Charles and Booker last season, when he had just seven carries and two catches, one of which went for a touchdown. Raiders sign fifth-round pick: The Oakland Raiders signed fifth-round
pick Johnny Townsend to a four-year contract.
Townsend, a punter, was selected 173rd overall by the Raiders in last month’s draft to replace the released
Marquette King. He played in 44 games over his four-year career at Florida, averaging 46.2 yards per punt with 90 of his 240 punts being placed inside the opponents’ 20-yard line.
Townsend finished his collegiate career as Florida’s all-time leading punter in yards and punts, and ranks first in SEC history in career punting average.
Dive play called: Hue Jackson’s shuddering season with the Cleveland Browns will include one last chill.
The coach is keeping his promise and plans to jump into Lake Erie on June 1 in an event for charity and hopefully wash away two long, losing seasons.
Jackson announced that he will take a dip into the chilly waters in a few weeks. As the Browns were staggering toward a winless 2017 season, Jackson vowed that if the team didn’t improve on its 1-15 record from the previous year that he would take the plunge.
Well, the Browns made history as the second NFL team to go 0-16 and now it’s time for Jackson to pay up.
And get wet.
Jackson pledged that for every Browns employee that joins him in the water he will donate $100 to his foundation, which combats human trafficking in Northeast Ohio. Jackson said his goal is to raise $15,000.
Jackson and his wife, Michelle, began the Hue Jackson Foundation last summer.
Despite going 1-31 in his two seasons, Jackson kept his job and now he’s hoping his splashdown can symbolize a new beginning for the Browns.
“I’m hoping to also cleanse ourselves of all the losing for the past two seasons by jumping in,” he said.