The Denver Broncos are desperate to sign a new quarterback as they've yet to find a decent gunslinger for them under center since Peyton Manning retired from the NFL after their Super Bowl 50 victory.

Since Manning walked off into the sunset, the Broncos have failed to make the playoffs and have gone 9-7 in 2016, and 5-11 in 2017, with the likes of Trevor Siemian, Paxton Lynch, and Brock Osweiler under center. It has widely been expected the team will go hard after Kirk Cousins in this free agency as their quarterback of the future.

They need to sign a new quarterback to get this team back into the playoffs and competing for another Super Bowl before the championship window passes on the elite defense which they have. To do that, they could be trading off a couple of players to create more cap space for such a signing.

According to the Denver Post, the Broncos will be looking to trade away wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders. However, when you take into account his salary, his struggle to stay healthy, and his age, it's difficult to see that many teams interested in him.

Before the start of next season, Sanders will turn 31 years old and will have cap hits of $10.9 million and $12.9 million over the next two seasons, via Spotrac. This is not the kind of player which many NFL teams are looking for on their roster. His production wasn't that great last season either.

The wide receiver only managed to play 12 games for the Broncos last season due to injuries, achieving 47 catches for 555 yards and three touchdowns, his worst season in the NFL since he was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's a real shame as it was only back in the 2015 season that he helped the Broncos win Super Bowl 50 with six catches for 83 yards in the game.

If Denver is unable to find a new team for Sanders, they'll most likely ask him to take a pay cut, or cut him from their roster, accepting the dead cap space of $5.375 million and move on from him that way.

It has also been rumored that the Broncos could be releasing Aquib Talib in order to create another $11 million in cap space.

This, combined with Sanders' potential cap space and the approximate cap space of $23 million which the team already has, and they would have more than enough to put in a good bid to try and land Cousins in free agency.