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“OTAs, why I gotta do this?”: Von Miller is tired of offseason practices

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31st May, 2025 14:05 IST
On March 9, 2025, 36-year-old linebacker Von Miller was released by the Buffalo Bills . Ever since then, he’s been a free agent. And no team has picked him as of May 31, 2025! No wonder. He’s tired of the OTAs , and he’s bored of the summer training sessions ! But that was when Miller was with an NFL team. Now that he’s not, he wishes he was at the OTAs! Did the headline sound tricky?

Sharing with Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, Pro Football Writer for The Associated Press , the former outside LB for Denver Broncos said, “Whenever you have all this time, you reminisce, and you think about these OTAs, why I gotta do this?” Is it just the OTAs that are boring for Von Miller? Or no team has reached out to him for the past two months, that’s troubling Miller?
36-year-old linebacker Von Miller is sitting at home and wishing he was at the OTAsVon Miller talks about not wanting OTAs when playing for an NFL team and wanting OTAs when not assigned to an NFL team,

“Offseason’s been a little bit longer than I expected it to be, but that’s just how it’s supposed to be.

Whenever you have all this time, you reminisce, and you think back about all these OTAs and these summer training sessions where you’re like - man, why I gotta be here? Why I gotta be here? OTAs, why I gotta do this?

And now you’re sitting at home like - man, I wish I was at OTAs right now.”
Von Miller wants to play for the Denver Broncos, but they have not contacted him or his agent so far Von Miller expressed his interest in rejoining with the Denver Broncos. Stapleton asked Miller if the Denver Broncos had reached out to him or his agent, Miller said,

“I haven’t heard anything. But I mean, if you look at this year, it really doesn’t - it really doesn’t make sense.

They(Denver Broncos) got two really, really good rushers that are best in the league (in), Jonathan Cooper and Nik Bonitto - they are incredible rushers.

And the guys underneath them, they come in, they produce sacks too, and they play special teams. I’m not playing special teams. So they kind of - that decision kind of - makes itself.

I think at 36 years old, I can say that I probably won’t be doing that. But yeah, just this year, probably not. But you know, the year after that, next year, we’ll see what happens.”
Miller isn’t so sure about this year because the past three seasons with the Buffalo Bills got marred by injuries. Injuries prevented Miller from giving his best.

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