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Nick Kasa finds home with Broncos just before Super Bowl
PAT GRAHAM have been working hard Colorado tight end Nick Kasa watches from the sideline as Colorado trails Washington during an
AP Sports Writer toward this for a long time. NCAA college football game in Boulder, Colo. Kasa was signed to the Denver Broncos practice
ENGLEWOOD, Colorado For me to come in at the squad Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, after tight end Dan Light was waived from the team as it heads to
(AP) — Last Sunday, Nick end here, is just kind of an Super Bowl 50.
Kasa was like any other fan out-of-the-ordinary event.
of the Denver Broncos. I’m honored to be here (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
On Super Bowl Sunday, and ready to do whatever I
he’ll be one of the Denver can to help.” a 9-yard TD pass against, fit- the Raiders let him go and just a few blocks away from
Broncos. That includes playing the tingly enough, the Broncos. he’s been looking for an Denver’s practice facility.
The tight end, out of foot- part of Panthers tight end He missed 2014 after being NFL job ever since. “Still pretty much the same
ball since the spring, got a Greg Olsen in practice. placed on injured reserve To stay in tip-top tight-end start to my day,” Kasa
phone call while sitting in He’s been studying film of with a torn ACL. Last spring, shape, Kasa worked out cracked.q
the stands last weekend, the Pro Bowl tight end to
watching the Broncos beat give Denver’s top-ranked
New England in the AFC defense an accurate por-
title game. trayal.
He dropped his phone “My role is to be the best
and cracked the screen — Greg Olsen that I can,”
that’s another story — but Kasa said.
when he finally restored “I didn’t see this coming.
his service, he learned the I thought the season was
Broncos wanted to sign drawing to an end. I was
him to the practice squad ready to move on to the
to help them get ready for next year. Surprised me
the Super Bowl against Car- with this call. I’m ready to
olina. go.”
“It’s been pretty crazy. Kasa was drafted in the
Kind of indescribable,” said sixth round by Oakland in
Kasa, who was signed Mon- 2013, and played in all 16
day and would have to be games his rookie season.
activated from the prac- The only catch of his career
tice squad in order to play was in the final week of that
in the game. “These guys season, when he hauled in
