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Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
International player trying out at Broncos mandatory minicamp
The Denver Broncos are taking a look at another Australian-born player. Among the seven players trying out at mandatory minicamp this week is Patrick Murtagh, a 25-year-old tight end who was a decathlete growing up before later switching to Australian rules football. He was rostered by the Gold Coast Football Club from 2020-2022 before joining the NFL's international player pathway program in 2023. Advertisement Murtagh had a brief stint with the Detroit Lions early in 2023 that was cut short by a medical issue. He then went to training camp with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2024, spending the regular season on injured reserve. The Jags waived the tight end this spring. The Broncos (and all 32 NFL teams) are allowed to carry an extra international player on the practice squad during the regular season. So if Denver signs a player like Murtagh and he ends up on the practice squad, he would not count against the 16-player limit. Teams also get an extra active roster spot for an international player during the offseason. Right now, Australian punter Jeremy Crawshaw is the team's designated international player, and he does not count against the 90-man offseason roster limit. Advertisement Related: These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans. This article originally appeared on Broncos Wire: Denver Broncos: Australian tight end trying out at minicamp
USA Today
11-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
International player trying out at Broncos mandatory minicamp
International player trying out at Broncos mandatory minicamp The Denver Broncos are taking a look at another Australian-born player. Among the seven players trying out at mandatory minicamp this week is Patrick Murtagh, a 25-year-old tight end who was a decathlete growing up before later switching to Australian rules football. He was rostered by the Gold Coast Football Club from 2020-2022 before joining the NFL's international player pathway program in 2023. Murtagh had a brief stint with the Detroit Lions early in 2023 that was cut short by a medical issue. He then went to training camp with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2024, spending the regular season on injured reserve. The Jags waived the tight end this spring. The Broncos (and all 32 NFL teams) are allowed to carry an extra international player on the practice squad during the regular season. So if Denver signs a player like Murtagh and he ends up on the practice squad, he would not count against the 16-player limit. Teams also get an extra active roster spot for an international player during the offseason. Right now, Australian punter Jeremy Crawshaw is the team's designated international player, and he does not count against the 90-man offseason roster limit. Related: These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans.
Irish Independent
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Fiona Murtagh claims silver for Ireland at European Rowing Championships
Fiona Murtagh's switch from the bigger boats to the lonelier single scull yielded immediate rewards as she took silver in Plovdiv, Bulgaria this morning. Fintan McCarthy and Konan Pazzaia had taken bronze in the double yesterday. The year after the Olympic Games is made for trying out new things, and the Galway woman can be happy with her switch from crew boats – she took Olympic silver in the four in Tokyo 2020 – to the single. Her companion in the pair at Paris 2024, Aifric Keogh, retired and with encouragement from Ireland lead coach, Dominic Casey, Murtagh made the jump. Britain's Lauren Henry made a similar switch, in her case from the quadruple, and come the final she had too much for the Galway woman. Murtagh kept Henry honest. The start had been close, but by half way only these the two were in a battle for gold, with Murtagh performing well. Henry is smaller than the tall Galway woman but sculled sweetly to push away and win by 3.31 seconds. 'It's very, very special,' Henry said. 'I's still early days, but I wanted to come here and make a mark and make a name for myself, and I feel that I've done that.' Murtagh's success in her new discipline, along with the creation of the Pazzaia-McCarthy crew, have been bright spots in a generally good campaign for Ireland at the Championships. Not all the experiments by the new management made their mark. The men's quadruple scull finished fifth in their B final (11th overall). While Ukraine won from the front, the new Ireland crew fought for a placing in the top three for much of the 2,000 metres, slipping back in the final third of the race. The women's quadruple were fourth and last in their B final, 10th overall. Casey was delighted with Murtagh's success. He constantly stresses how good all the athletes are. And the decision to let many of them finish exams left a window of just a few weeks when the newly-formed units could train together as crews. There will be real anticipation as to how the reinvigorated team does come the World Cup in Lucerne from June 27 to 29.
The 42
01-06-2025
- Sport
- The 42
Ireland's Fiona Murtagh wins silver at European Rowing Championships
TOKYO OLYMPIC MEDALLIST Fiona Murtagh added an individual European Championship silver to her collection with a brilliant performance in the women's single sculls A final in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The Galwegian, who was part of the women's four who won Olympic bronze in 2021, chased home winner Lauren Henry of Great Britain to win her first solo medal at a major regatta. Murtagh's silver success is Ireland's second medal at these championships following Fintan McCarthy and Konan Pazzaia's bronze in the men's double sculls on Saturday. Henry and Murtagh set a challenging early pace in Sunday's final with little to choose between them through the opening 1000m, Henry leading by just six tenths of a second. Advertisement Henry, who is the reigning Olympic champion in the quadruple sculls, upped the pace in the back half of the race, stringing out the field, but Murtagh had the power and stamina to keep chase all the way to the line. Henry took gold in 7:17.80, with Murtagh second in 7:21.11, while Frida Nielsen of Denmark won bronze in 7:23.57.
RTÉ News
01-06-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Fiona Murtagh adds to Ireland's haul with silver at European Rowing Championships
Fiona Murtagh has claimed Ireland's second medal of the European Rowing Championships by taking silver in the single sculls in Plovdiv. Murtagh, who won Olympic bronze in Tokyo, came in behind Britan's Fiona Henry and head of Dane Frida Sanggaard Nielsen. At the halfway point, Murtagh was in second place and within striking distance of Henry, but the Britain gradually began to pull away. The Galway woman eventually crossed the line in 07:21:11, just over three seconds off first place but about 2.5 seconds ahead of Nielsen. Yesterday, the in the men's double sculls. It was a first heavyweight medal for McCarthy, who previously won two Olympic gold medals in the lightweight category.
