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The Broncos could beryllium without some starting guards Sunday against the Ravens arsenic Graham Glasgow and Dalton Risner are questionable to play, manager Vic Fangio said earlier signifier Wednesday.
Glasgow sustained a genu wounded successful the 3rd 4th of Sunday’s triumph implicit the Jets, and Risner a ft wounded that knocked him retired of the crippled successful the 2nd half. Neither subordinate practiced Wednesday.
Those 2 injuries — successful summation to 5 different Broncos starters presently shelved — are a constituent of interest for Fangio amid the team’s 3-0 start, adjacent though helium does judge successful the team’s backup guards.
“(The violative enactment depth) is getting tested a small excessively aboriginal for my liking, but if you tin bring successful a feline similar (Netane) Muti and (Quinn) Meinerz, that’s bully for us,” Fangio said.
Muti, a second-year pro retired of Fresno State, started for Glasgow successful Week 2 aft arrhythmia kept the second from playing successful the triumph successful Jacksonville. That marked Muti’s 2nd vocation start, portion Meinerz (the Broncos’ third-round prime this twelvemonth retired of Wis.-Whitewater) filled successful for Risner aft the starter was injured against the Jets.
Fangio intelligibly has much assurance successful Muti than Meinerz, who mislaid the conflict with Lloyd Cushenberry for the starting halfway occupation and has looked inconsistent.
“I’m a instrumentality of (Muti’s),” Fangio said connected Monday. ‘I deliberation he’s an NFL player. He tin spell successful determination and play defender immoderate clip we want. If helium has to play immoderate this week, he’ll beryllium ready.”
Meanwhile, Fangio gave Meinerz a so-so valuation aft coming connected successful alleviation against New York past Sunday.
“(Meinerz) had a fistful of plays determination aft we mislaid (Glasgow and Risner),” Fangio said. “Some good, immoderate not truthful good, but that’s benignant of the mode you expect it to be.”
The re-jiggering of the enactment comes astatine an inopportune time. The Broncos fertile seventh successful the NFL with 127.3 rushing yards/game, but that facet of the discourtesy has yet to unrecorded up to internal expectations held by co-No. 1 tailbacks Melvin Gordon and Javonte Williams. Fangio noted “the Ravens historically are precise pugnacious to tally on,” with Denver South grad Calais Campbell anchoring Baltimore’s antiaircraft line.
“They person large antiaircraft linemen, and they person bully players,” Fangio said. “Their strategy is hard to tally connected astatine times, but we’re going to person to find a mode to grind immoderate yards retired of there.”
Risner had a footwear connected during his foundation lawsuit successful Denver connected Monday and watched Wednesday’s pre-practice agelong minus a boot, portion Glasgow wasn’t spotted. During idiosyncratic drills, Muti and Meinerz took the snaps astatine close and near guard, respectively.
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