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Denver Broncos wide receiver Kyle Williams suffered a season-ending Achilles injury at training camp practice Saturday.

Williams, 27, was carted off the practice field after going down awkwardly in punt-return drills. He was moving up to field a punt when his leg buckled.

Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak confirmed that Williams suffered a serious injury.

“It’s his Achilles,” Kubiak said after practice. “He wasn’t even touched; just feel bad for him. I know he’s disappointed.”

Williams said on Instagram that he tore his Achilles and won’t play in 2015.

“Unfortunately, today I suffered an injury to my Achilles and will consequently be missing this season,” Williams wrote. “It’s hard for me at this point to make sense of all of this but at the end of the day I understand and trust God’s plan for me. My determination to get back and my work ethic will not diminish and I will eventually get back to full strength. I appreciate all those who have reached out and all of those who are praying. You all mean more to me than u know. Thank you.”

—New York Jets rookie receiver Devin Smith, who was hospitalized Friday with broken ribs, also sustained a partially punctured lung.

Smith will miss the majority of camp, but the team said the lung injury will not add additional time to his recovery. The Jets open the regular season on Sept. 13 against the Cleveland Browns.

Smith, the Jets’ second-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft out of Ohio State, hit the ground hard at training camp after making a leaping catch of a deflected sideline pass over cornerback Marcus Williams. The speedy receiver got hit in the back of the head by safety Jaiquawn Jarrett and left the field gingerly.

—Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said he will not “blow things up” if the team has a losing record this season.

Haslam, addressing the media at training camp in Berea, Ohio, said win-loss record will not affect the future of coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer.

“We’re not going to blow things up. OK?” Haslam said. “I think we’re on the right track, so we’re not going to blow things up. I understand why people might ask that after a couple of bumps in the road the first couple of years, but we’re not going to do that. I think we’re putting in place a good foundation. The first year we were here the draft was not what we wanted.

“I think the second year was better, and a lot depends on how the two first-rounders do, right? If they turn out to be really good players, we had a tremendous draft last year. If one of them makes it, we had a good draft. If neither of them makes it, it’s OK, it’s just so-so. But I think this past year we had a really good draft. We added 12 players, two of them might be redshirts and we have 11 picks this coming year. So if you have that many picks and you pick good talent and can coach them over a period of time, we’re going to be successful.”

Cleveland went 7-9 last season in Pettine’s first year as head coach and Farmer’s first year as general manager.

—Eli Manning isn’t concerned about keeping up with fellow quarterbacks Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers, except on the field.

Manning is due to receive $17 million this season from the New York Giants, with Wilson getting $21.9 million per year in a new deal he signed this week with the Seattle Seahawks, and the Green Bay Packers will pay Rodgers $22 million.

“No, I’m not into the comparison about how much money you’re making,” Manning told the New York Post on Friday “That’s not my concern. Right now, my concern is getting on this practice field for our first practice. I’m excited about that and just let the business side of it just work itself out.”

Manning wants to get the Giants’ offense back in gear after they finished with a disappointing 6-10 record last season.

The Giants finished under .500 for the second year in a row, missing the playoffs for a third year in a row and for the fifth time in the last six seasons.

—The New York Jets promoted Jacqueline Davidson to director of football administration.

Davidson replaces Rod Graves, who recently left the Jets’ front office to take a position in the league office as senior vice president of football administration and club services. The appointment makes Davidson one of the highest-ranking women to work in an NFL front office.

Davidson, in her ninth season with the Jets and in the NFL, serves as the team’s lead negotiator of player contracts and manages the team’s salary cap and player budget.

—Longtime NFL offensive assistant Al Saunders, who had an unsuccessful two-plus-year stint (17-22) as head coach of the San Diego Chargers from 1986-88, is spending training camp with the Cincinnati Bengals as a senior offensive assistant.

Saunders, 68, was receivers coach for the St. Louis Rams’ “Greatest Show on Turf” teams in 1999-2000 and since then has coached with the Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens and Oakland Raiders. He was an assistant on Don Coryell’s staff in San Diego and became head coach in 1986 when Coryell resigned after eight games.

Bengals offensive coordinator Hue Jackson and Saunders coached together in Baltimore, and when Jackson was the Raiders’ head coach in 2011, Saunders was his offensive coordinator. He stayed with the Raiders through last season as a senior offensive assistant, but wasn’t brought back when Jack Del Rio was named head coach.

—The New England Patriots released defensive backs Derek Cox and Justin Green, and linebacker DJ Lynch.

Cox, 28, was signed by the Patriots as a free agent on June 8. The 6-foot-1, 195-pounder is a veteran of five NFL seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2009-12) and the San Diego Chargers (2013).

—The Washington Redskins signed free agent cornerback Deshazor Everett, a rookie from Texas A&M.

To make room for Everett on the roster, the team released linebacker Dasman McCullum.

—The Miami Dolphins activated tight end Gerell Robinson from the active/non-football injury list. He played in two games for the Dolphins last season, but had no receptions.