Mitchell Fraboni’s salary-cap number for the Broncos went up from $985,000 in 2024 to $1.3 million this year, but that’s not his biggest percentage raise in recent years.

In 2018, Fraboni was working as a barback at the Blind Dragon, then a bar in Scottsdale, Ariz., and initially making $7 an hour. Then he had his salary nearly doubled.

“I got my pay bumped up to $12 an hour,’’ Fraboni said. “I was close to one of my managers.”

As a restricted free agent last March, the Broncos’ long snapper signed a three-year, $4.175 million contract, with $1.7 million guaranteed. It gave him plenty of financial security after in his previous three Denver seasons he had no money guaranteed and seemingly could have been cut after one bad snap.

Fraboni, 28, has come a long way since he was a long snapp

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