Good Evening, Broncos fans! Ahead of Monday's deadline, Washington franchise tagged linebacker Brian Orakpo, making them just the fourth team to use such a tender this offseason.

Additionally, two teams tendered players at the rarely used transition level: Pittsburgh with LB Jason Worilds, and Cleveland with center Alex Mack.

Transition tenders allow teams to match offer sheets for their own players, but without the possibility of draft-choice compensation, should they opt not to match.

Tender levels for transition players are slightly lower than those for franchise players.

Prior to Monday, the three teams to use their franchise tags were New Orleans (TE Jimmy Graham), Carolina (DE Greg Hardy), and the Jets (K Nick Folk).

Elsewhere, San Francisco agreed to a new two-year deal with WR Anquan Boldin, while Baltimore retained safety Bernard Pollard.

Broncos

Given that the Broncos have a good amount of cap space and can easily free up more, it's no wonder that they've not asked Peyton Manning to restructure his deal. BTW, why is Mike Florio the only mainstream writer to correctly peg Manning's salary at $15M? Is it just the telephone game, started by Mike Klis and Jeff Legwold?

The agent for D'Qwell Jackson says the linebacker was impressed by his visit to Dove Valley, and should have a decision by the end of the week. Jackson already visited Tennessee, is on his way to Miami, and according to Klis, has one more meeting with an unnamed team. Arizona and Minnesota have been reported as having interest in the ex-Terp.

Lindsay Jones thinks Denver should focus its offseason on upgrading the defense, while Nate Davis suggests they let Eric Decker, Knowshon Moreno, and Zane Beadles walk via free agency.

Jeffri Chadiha expects Decker to follow in a long line of #2 receivers to hit it big in free agency before falling flat on their faces.

Andrew Mason examines this year's free agent defensive end crop.

News

The competition committee is considering turning extra points into 43-yard attempts, which would happen to be in Matt Prater's nightmare zone (34/53 from fortysomething yards in his career, for a putrid 64% conversion rate). If this means convincing John Fox to go for two every time, then we're all for it!

Buffalo chose not to tender safety Jairus Byrd, who Doug Farrar says may now be the top available free agent.

Niners QB Colin Kaepernick is reportedly aiming to be grossly overpaid.

Analysis

Here are PFF's top 75 pending free agents.

Doug Farrar lists his top free agent quarterbacks and running backs, with Knowshon Moreno leading the backs.

Anwar Richardson ranks his top 25 free agents and suggests Denver as the best landing spot for Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Geoff Schwartz.

Jason Fitzgerald explains the caponomics of today's moves.