Denver Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy was carted off the practice field on Thursday with a right hamstring injury.

"It's a hamstring," Sean Payton confirmed. "We'll get an MRI and see where he's at with it."

Jeudy is expected to miss at least several weeks, according to a report.

The Broncos open the regular season Sept. 10 against the Las Vegas Raiders, 17 days from Thursday.

Sean Payton says the Denver Broncos plan to play Javonte Williams on Saturday against the San Francisco 49ers.

Williams suffered a major knee injury just 10 months ago.

"He's doing well, we'll have a plan -- I plan on playing him," Payton said. "We'll see pitch count-wise towards the end of the week. We'll be smart, but I do see him playing."

Williams, a second-round draft pick by the Broncos in 2021 and an All-Rookie team member that season, suffered a torn ACL and LCL in his right knee on Oct. 2, 2022.

He said he was initially given a timetable of 12-to-18 months to return to the field.

The average NFL franchise has increased in value by 24 percent over the past 12 months reaching $5.14 billion.

Collectively, the NFL’s 32 teams are worth $165 billion, including team-related business and real estate held by owners.

The Dallas Cowboys rank first in the NFL and across all sports leagues globally at $9.2 billion. The Cowboys had an operating profit of $460 million in 2022.

The New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams rank second and third at $7.04 billion and $6.98 billion respectively. The New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers round out the top-5.

DeMarcus Ware's journey from small-college star to Hall of Famer took a fateful turn in the early 2000s, when he made a life-altering decision with a knife in his hand.

Choking with emotion as he recalled the incident Saturday in his speech at Tom Benson Stadium, the former Cowboys and Broncos star said he was assaulted by a gun-wielding man in a parking lot during a trip home while attending Troy University. That moment, which he'd never shared publicly, changed his life.

"Without warning, I was knocked across the head with a gun," Ware told the crowd. "A knife dropped to the ground and I picked it up. And when I looked up, all I could see was the potential shooter's eyes and a gun barrel pressed against my head. All I heard was my family say, 'Don't kill him.'