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Player attendance
Did not practice: Active/PUP — CB Duke Dawson (knee) and CB Essang Bassey (knee). Active roster — RB Mike Boone (quad), OLB Malik Reed (ankle), CB Pat Surtain II (lower leg), S Trey Marshall (ankle) and OLB Andre Mintze (concussion).
Returned to practice: WR Tim Patrick (groin), RB Melvin Gordon (groin) and OLB Von Miller (personal).
Surtain missed his archetypal afloat signifier of camp. “He’s got a flimsy irritation successful the little leg,” manager Vic Fangio said. “We deliberation he’s OK, but we’re being cautious.”
Top play
During 11-on-11 work, QB Teddy Bridgewater connected with WR Trinity Benson for a agelong completion down the mediate of the field.
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OLB Bradley Chubb. He had his snaps managed aboriginal successful campy and present we’re seeing the dividends. Chubb was ascendant connected Wednesday. “I deliberation he’s successful a bully spot and we’ve brought him on the close mode successful lieu of his injury,” Fangio said. “I deliberation he’s acceptable to go.”
TE Noah Fant. He had 2 catches successful 11-on-11 and 3 catches successful 7-on-7 work.
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RB Damerea Crockett. He dropped 2 passes, 1 apiece from QBs Drew Lock and Brett Rypien.
Practice tempo. There was none. The canine days of campy person arrived, folks.
Odds and ends
*Fangio connected choosing a Week 1 starting quarterback: “Pretty damn adjacent (to having each of the info), but we person much accusation coming.”
*Fangio said helium would “imagine” that QBs Teddy Bridgewater and Drew Lock would play successful the last preseason crippled Aug. 28 against the Los Angeles Rams. “I deliberation decidedly immoderate of the guys could play the 3rd one,” helium said.
*11 vs. 11 highlights: First play — Bridgewater’s last walk was easy intercepted by S Justin Simmons connected a miscommunication. CB Saivion Smith broke up Lock’s last attempt. … Second play — Lock had completions to TE Noah Fant and WR Courtland Sutton. … Third play — Lock practiced a backmost sneak to extremity his drive. … Fourth play — Bridgewater’s thrust started with a sack and ended with consecutive rushes by RB Royce Freeman. RB Damerea Crockett dropped Lock’s pass.
*7 vs. 7 highlights: First play — Lock recovered Fant (ILB Justin Strnad successful coverage) unfastened down the close sideline and Bridgewater followed by connecting with Fant (CB Parnell Motley successful coverage) unfastened down the middle. Simmons astir intercepted QB Brett Rypien. … Second play — Lock completed each 5 of his passes, including 2 to TE/FB Andrew Beck.
*Calvin Anderson took the first-team snaps astatine RT and Michael Ojemudia saw dime CB enactment with the first-team defence successful spot of Pat Surtain II.
*Wednesday was Alzheimer’s Awareness Day astatine grooming camp. Before practice, the Broncos and Empower Retirement announced a $50,000 donation to the Alzheimer’s Association (Colorado Chapter). On manus for the ceremonial were wide manager George Paton and 2 of precocious proprietor Pat Bowlen’s children — Brittany and Patrick Bowlen. Pat passed distant due to the fact that of Alzheimer’s successful June 2019 and his widow, Annabel, is warring the disease. Broncos coaches and enactment unit wore purple t-shirts (the cause’s signature color) during practice. “Obviously, it’s touched this enactment successful a heavy mode with the Bowlen household and we person others successful the organization, too, that person had household members stricken with it,” Fangio said. “It’s a unspeakable illness and thing we tin bash to rise wealth to assistance cure this happening is good.”
* During Thursday’s practice, the Broncos, successful concern with UC Health, volition administer Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine shots from 7:30-11:30 a.m. Appointments aren’t indispensable and those funny successful being vaccinated bash not person to be the practice. A vaccination presumption volition beryllium acceptable up successful beforehand of the Broncos’ squad store.
Thursday’s schedule
Practice, 9 a.m. (open to fans).
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