Denver's offseason overhaul continues. Great move for the Broncos! Their special teams were absolutely atrocious last year...ESPECIALLY from a punting perspective. The mad scientist continues to toil away in his lab... Muwahahahaha... ******************** Panthers Trade Punter Sauerbrun to Broncos ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Three-time Pro Bowl punter Todd Sauerbrun, who reportedly received prescriptions for banned steroids weeks before the 2004 Super Bowl, was traded by the Carolina Panthers on Thursday. The beneficiary was the Denver Broncos, who acquired Sauerbrun for punter Jason Baker and a seventh-round pick in 2006. According to a report which aired on the CBS show "60 Minutes" last month, three members of the Panthers team that reached the Super Bowl in 2004 received prescriptions for banned steroids weeks before the game. The players implicated in the report were Sauerbrun, starting center Jeff Mitchell and former left tackle Todd Steussie. The report stemmed from a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation of Dr. James Shortt, a West Columbia, South Carolina doctor accused of prescribing steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. According to the report, the players had prescriptions for testosterone cream filled within two weeks of Super Bowl XXXVIII. In addition to the cream, Sauerbrun reportedly obtained syringes and the injectable steroid stanozolol. Sauerbrun, 32, never has tested positive for steroids under the NFL's testing program. A 10-year veteran, Sauerbrun spent the last four seasons with Carolina. In 2004, he ranked second in the NFC with a 44.1-yard gross punting average and boasted a 37.5 net punting average for the third-highest mark in the conference. Sauerbrun was named to three straight Pro Bowls from 2001-03. He previously played for Kansas City (2000) and Chicago (1995-99).
