March. His 4-year, $54 million extension (with another $6 million tied to sacks) puts him among top 16 OLBers.

I think it sends a really good message around the locker room, showing guys, if you do it the right way, you’ll get rewarded.” Had Cooper hit the open market this spring, he might have gone above those numbers and toward what Minnesota gave Jonathan Greenard (four years and up to $76 million) in free agency last spring,

The Denver Broncos made a statement last Saturday when they gave outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper a four-year, $60 million contract extension. With that deal, Denver declared that Cooper is the team’s top pass rusher going forward. That declaration was ...