Every NFL team’s breakout star for this season

Breakout NFL candidates for 2023: Denver Broncos – Montrell Washington

As we said at the beginning of this article, Jerry Jeudy is a very popular name for breakout player. The Denver Broncos wide receiver hasn’t shown the superstar abilities he had coming out of the University of Alabama. He was fine last year, catching 67 of his 100 targets for just under 1,000 yards. However, he’s not the Broncos wide receiver we want to talk about this year.

Montrell Washington was expected to make a giant leap last season. However, he couldn’t even keep his job as a return specialist when he was benched for the final two games of the season. Things just didn’t spark, and the fifth-round rookie was forced to watch from the sidelines.

Now, enter Sean Payton, special teams coach Ben Kotwica, and the rest of the new Broncos staff. Payton has a habit of finding the guys who work the hardest and making a role for them. Washington’s work ethic has never been in question. This offseason, he’s finding the flaws in his game, and the coaching staff is taking notice.

Obviously, priority number one for the Broncos is to get Russell Wilson right. He has Jeudy, Tim Patrick, and Courtland Sutton. Washington might be 10th on the list for wide receivers to get targets, but he will chip away at that by season’s end. We see Payton falling in love with this player, and he will find packages to get him the ball.