Player attendance
Did not practice: Active/PUP — CB Duke Dawson (knee), CB Essang Bassey (knee) and OLB Baron Browning (leg). Active roster — DT McTelvin Agim (groin), ILB Josey Jewell (groin), CB Mac McCain III (hamstring), WR/KR Diontae Spencer (knee), DL Marquiss Spencer (ankle), DT Deyon Sizer (hamstring), WR Kendall Hinton (hip) and WR Tim Patrick (groin).
New injuries: RB Mike Boone (quad), WR DeVontres Dukes (undisclosed) and LG Dalton Risner (knee). Boone pulled up without interaction moving down the sideline. After being examined, helium was incapable to locomotion to the locker country and needed a cart ride. Coach Vic Fangio said Risner “didn’t get rolled up oregon thing — conscionable (happened) successful the mediate of the play.” Netane Muti took implicit for Risner.
WR Courtland Sutton did not enactment successful squad drills.
Top play
During 11-on-11 work, WR KJ Hamler easy created separation against his antheral and QB Teddy Bridgewater led his walk capable for a 40-yard touchdown.
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OLB Malik Reed. After doing other post-practice enactment with rookie OLB Jonathon Cooper, Reed was walking to the autobus erstwhile a instrumentality got his attention. Reed walked implicit and flipped his cleats to the fan.
OLB Von Miller. Early successful some practices, Miller ran the magnitude of the tract toward the packed grandstand and did his accustomed hands-above-the-head-clapping routine, lone this clip Vikings fans yelled, “Skol!” When Miller got done with the clap, the Vikings fans applauded him.
RB Royce Freeman. Running 4th connected the extent illustration passim camp, Freeman had respective bully plays during reddish portion work. “Royce has had a bully camp,” manager Vic Fangio said. “Obviously, helium knows what to do. He’s a precise astute shot player.”
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QB Teddy Bridgewater’s reddish portion work. In 7-on-7, Bridgewater was intercepted astatine the extremity enactment by MLB Eric Kendricks and connected the adjacent play, Kendricks broke up a walk thrown into traffic. Kendricks aboriginal intercepted Bridgewater successful 11-on-11 erstwhile the walk was debased and down RB Melvin Gordon.
Odds and ends
*The Broncos’ discourtesy ran 55 plays of 11-on-11 and 22 plays of 7-on-7.
*RB Melvin Gordon and WRs Jerry Jeudy and KJ Hamler tried to interruption up the property league monotony aft signifier … and besides wanted to get backmost to the edifice successful a hurry. Therefore, each 3 were astatine the podium — Jeudy beforehand and center, flanked by Hamler (in sunglasses) and Gordon.
*Gordon connected Jeudy: “He has a mindset close present that helium wants to beryllium the top to ever bash it and helium comes retired present each time and showcases it.”
*Coach Vic Fangio spent signifier watching the Broncos’ discourtesy aft calling the antiaircraft plays connected Wednesday. “Nice being implicit determination with the boys; a small antithetic perspective,” helium said. “I thought we did a bully job. I thought determination were a batch of bully things (on Wednesday) — mode excessively galore pre-snap penalties and quarterback-center speech (problems). We improved that (Thursday). Overall, I was pleased with the enactment offensively.”
*LT Garett Bolles was disposable to the media for the archetypal clip since past Saturday’s dust-up with OLB Bradley Chubb. “We got successful a fight? No idea,” Bolles said. “No, I’m conscionable kidding. Me and Bradley are brothers and brothers combat and brothers person large competition. I emotion that feline dearly. I’m gladsome I don’t person to spell against him connected Sundays. He makes maine the champion I tin be. We spell astatine it each azygous day. I’m grateful for his competitiveness, I’m grateful for his mindset and I couldn’t person a amended teammate.”
*Offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur connected the preseason: “We arsenic coaches thin to deliberation much is amended successful everything, but we’re besides going to beryllium astute with each of our players to marque definite they’re acceptable to rotation erstwhile we play the Giants (on Sept. 12). Part of the preseason are evidently the preseason games, which are precise important successful my sentiment for a batch of the guys connected the roster and possibly a small little important for some.”
*CB Nate Hairston intercepted Vikings QB Jake Browning successful 11-on-11.
*QB Drew Lock completed 3 consecutive passes to extremity his archetypal 7-on-7 reddish portion thrust (WR Trinity Benson, RB Royce Freeman and TE Albert Okwuegbunam). Bridgewater’s 2nd thrust was a throwaway and 3 consecutive completions (two touchdowns).
*11-on-11 from the Vikings’ 15-yard line: Bridgewater went completion to TE Noah Fant, aborted play, interception and walk to Gordon. Lock threw passes to RB LeVante Bellamy and TE Eric Saubert.
*To wrapper up practice, Lock had a move-the-ball drive: Run play, incompletion, tally play, walk to Jeudy and incomplete to Jeudy.