The Facts:
Following up on the ongoing story. ... The Broncos lost Brock Osweiler because they didn't want to pay him $18 million per year on a four-year deal. The Broncos now may lose Anderson on an offer sheet worth $18 million over four. The $4.5 million average dwarfs the $2.553 million, one-year tender the Broncos could have applied to keep Anderson with a tender that would have given them a second-round pick as compensation. Which surely would have kept the Dolphins from trying to snatch him.
Diehards Line:
The offer sheet, as a source with knowledge of its terms told PFT, is “pretty vanilla.” According to PFT's Mike Florio, the first-year cap payout is believed to be in the neighborhood of $6 million. Regardless of how it’s structured, the fact that Denver wouldn’t offer Anderson $2.553 million per year to protect against a team trying to grab suggests they won’t pay $4.5 million per year to keep him. ... However it turns out, Anderson will be a Bronco or a Dolphin in 2016. The Broncos will make the decision. They have five days to decide.