Duke back on Broncos' active roster

The Denver Broncos signed tight end Wesley Duke to their active roster on Tuesday, Broncos Mike Shanahan announced. Duke, a rookie, was on the Broncos' practice squad for the last five weeks.

Duke (6-foot-5, 225 pounds) played basketball at Mercer, which does not field a football team, until last season. He signed with Denver as an undrafted free agent on April 26 and was inactive for the Broncos' first four games of the season. He was waived on Oct. 8 before joining the Broncos' practice squad on Oct. 10.

In 116 career games at Mercer, Duke averaged 9.8 points per game and 5.9 rebounds per game while totaling a school-record 173 blocks and 104 steals.

As a senior in 2004, he ranked fifth in the conference in rebounding (7.2 rpg.), posted a team-high 40 blocks and averaged 11.5 points per game. Duke finished in fourth place in a nationally televised slam dunk contest held in conjunction with the 2005 NCAA Final Four.

Duke competed in football, basketball and track at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, Ga., and was born June 21, 1981, in Grand Prairie, Texas.