Broncos Briefs: Andrew Beck spending training camp focusing on tight end work, but expects to help at fullback, too

SEATTLE — Throughout grooming campy and the archetypal preseason game, Andrew Beck, the Broncos’ occasional fullback the past 2 years, has lined up exclusively astatine choky end. What’s the rationale?

“Tight extremity has been a batch of my absorption aft not doing it overmuch astatine each my rookie twelvemonth (2019) and nary past year,” Beck said. “I consciousness truly comfy with the fullback worldly truthful the much I tin adhd to my repertoire arsenic a choky extremity and bash some during the season, it volition beryllium highly adjuvant to the full offense.”

Acquired via waivers from New England aft the ’19 preseason, Beck has filled the fullback relation due to the fact that the Broncos haven’t carried a existent blocking back. Beck’s absorption astatine choky extremity entering Saturday night’s crippled against Seattle was multi-fold.

“Everything,” helium said. “My route-running, I think, is drastically improved and I deliberation I’ve yet learned however to artifact connected the enactment a small bit. I person plentifulness much to enactment on. Coming retired of the backfield exclusively to present having my manus connected the crushed astatine choky extremity has been a large learning curve.”

Asked if his route-running is up of his blocking, Beck said: “Actually, no. You look backmost astatine my assemblage tape, I blocked a batch and didn’t tally a batch of routes.”

Beck, 25, caught 9 passes (one touchdown) arsenic a rookie playing 16 games (six starts), but didn’t person a drawback oregon a commencement successful his 10 games past year.

The Broncos look acceptable with their 3 apical choky ends (Noah Fant, Albert Okwuegbunam and Eric Saubert) and Beck’s positional versatility should marque him a acceptable to stay connected the roster.

Beck’s secondary calling paper is peculiar teams.

“Four-core (special teamer), absolutely,” helium said. “That’s however it is for a fullback successful the NFL.”

Sutton, Miller sit. Receiver Courtland Sutton and extracurricular linebacker Von Miller sat retired the Seattle game.

Sutton is being managed successful his instrumentality from past September’s torn ACL, but is connected way to play against the New York Giants connected Sept. 12. Miller, who missed each of past twelvemonth with an ankle injury, expressed his penchant connected Thursday of not playing his archetypal crippled connected artificial turf. The Broncos big the Los Angeles Rams adjacent Saturday (grass surface).

The lone 2 players not to enactment successful pre-game warmups were information Trey Marshall (ankle), moving backmost Mike Boone (quad) and extracurricular linebacker Andre Mintze (concussion).

Another Modkins coaching. The Modkins household is erstwhile again being represented connected the Detroit Lions coaching staff.

Curtis Modkins, the Broncos’ moving backs coach, was with the Lions from 2013-15. His son, Jeff, is successful his archetypal twelvemonth arsenic Detroit’s adjunct peculiar teams coach.

“First full-time occupation and it’s awesome,” Curtis said, adding with a laugh: “The coolest happening is he’s disconnected my payroll. The assistance is over. He’s connected his own.”

Jeff, who played inferior assemblage shot successful Arizona, was a unpaid adjunct astatine Akron successful 2019 and the Broncos’ full-season diverseness coaching intern past year, moving each time with his father.

“It was bully for him to get a accidental to spot the day-to-day ins and outs of however it’s done and during a precise hard twelvemonth with each the things we went through,” Curtis said. “It was truly amusive (to enactment with him).”

Curtis Modkins enters his 4th twelvemonth with the Broncos, his seventh NFL team. During the offseason, helium interviewed for Philadelphia’s vacant violative coordinator job.

“It was a large interview,” helium said. “It was connected Zoom; I privation it was successful person, but I enjoyed it. I’ve been fortunate to beryllium a coordinator doubly (Buffalo and San Francisco). This is my 27th twelvemonth successful coaching and I’ve been preparing the past 26 years truthful erstwhile you get a accidental (to interview), you spell successful and bash your deal.”

The Eagles hired Shane Steichen, who antecedently worked with manager Nick Siranni for 2 years with the Chargers.

Preparing for Jets, Raiders. The Broncos’ preseason crippled astatine Seattle could payment the discourtesy due to the fact that they look Pete Carroll Defensive Coaching Tree play-callers successful Week 3 (the New York Jets’ Robert Saleh) and Weeks 6 and 16 (Las Vegas’ Gus Bradley). The Seahawks tally a basal 4-3 front.

“I deliberation it’s great,” violative coordinator Pat Shurmur said aft signifier Thursday. “There are astir 4 oregon 5 oregon possibly six existent antithetic styles of defence that you look and this is 1 that’s been tested implicit the people of time. A batch of one-high safety, a batch of antheral (coverage), a batch of three-deep (coverage), a batch of guys down adjacent to the shot trying to halt the run.

“The bully happening for america is it’s antithetic than the benignant that we look present successful practice. That’s the unintended vantage of getting acceptable to play against (Seattle).”