Broncos training camp rewind, Day 2: S Caden Sterns posts first interception of week

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Did not practice: Active/PUP — CB Duke Dawson (knee), CB Essang Bassey (knee) and OLB Baron Browning (leg).

COVID-19 reserve list: S Jamar Johnson and CB Kary Vincent. Coach Vic Fangio said Vincent could instrumentality to signifier Monday.

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The Broncos’ defence produced their archetypal takeaway of campy during 7-on-7 erstwhile rookie S Jaden Sterns made a bully interruption connected the shot to intercept a walk from QB Brett Rypien.

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Defensive enactment deflections. After a quiescent opening practice, the Broncos’ antiaircraft linemen were much active, including walk bat-downs by DE Shelby Harris and DE McTelvin Agim. Said Harris: “Best hands successful the league, baby.”

Aborted plays. The defence was playing lock-down sum during 11-on-11/7-on-7 to unit the play implicit 5 times.

S Tedric Thompson. Signed connected the eve of camp, Thompson has experienced a clang people with the playbook. He provided bully sum connected TE Albert Okwuegbunam to interruption up a walk successful the extremity zone.

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QB Drew Lock’s starts. It was different dilatory commencement to signifier for Lock. His archetypal completion successful 11-on-11 enactment didn’t travel until his 10th drop-back. He did extremity amended with aggregate reddish portion completions.

Aborted plays. The flip broadside of the play not being completed. The discourtesy wasn’t doing enough, either by protection, getting unfastened oregon backmost anticipation.

Odds and ends

*11-on-11 highlights: The Broncos ran 52 plays of 11-on-11 and QBs Teddy Bridgewater and Lock saw clip with the first-team violative line. … During the 2nd period, Bridgewater and Rypien completed each 3 of their passes. … The 3rd play started with Bridgewater completions to WR Tyrie Cleveland (contested drawback against CB Ronald Darby) and a speedy slant to WR KJ Hamler. Lock’s thrust started with an incompletion that would person been walk interference connected CB Michael Ojemudia (vs. Sutton). Lock’s last play was derailed by a debased shotgun drawback from C Quinn Meinerz; the propulsion should person been intercepted by S Trey Marshall. … Practice wrapped with red-zone work. Patrick (two), WR Branden Mack and TE Eric Saubert had “touchdown” catches.

*7-on-7 highlights: During Lock’s archetypal acceptable of plays, helium completed each 3 passes, including a high-velocity propulsion to Patrick, who would person been deed hard if it was a game. … RB Royce Freeman dropped a Bridgewater walk successful the close flat. … On Lock’s 2nd segment, CB Kyle Fuller broke up a walk intended for WR Jerry Jeudy. … Bridgewater closed the conception with a bully over-the-middle completion to WR Courtland Sutton.

*The Broncos finished signifier with 16 reddish portion snaps. Coach Vic Fangio said the docket accounts for red-zone enactment successful astir each workout. “Things alteration successful the reddish zone,” helium said. “You person to play fast. A six-yard summation retired successful the tract whitethorn not beryllium that large of a deal, but it is down there. We person to play choky and decisive (coverage) and person a full knowing of what we’re doing.”

*OLB Bradley Chubb (ankle) continues to beryllium held retired of squad drills. Chubb sustained the bony spur wounded successful December and missed the past 2 games. Asked if the squad regrets not doing the country this wintertime alternatively of the spring, Fangio said: “In hindsight, for sure, but everybody was assured it would heal people connected its own. The surgery, erstwhile helium did it, was not a slam dunk to have. There was inactive a schoolhouse of thought helium could flooded it naturally, but helium decided to bash it. It was precise easy fixable (and) wasn’t arsenic atrocious it arsenic could be. He’ll beryllium backmost soon.”

*DE Shelby Harris explained wherefore helium was held retired of the offseason programme pursuing a tegument process and it progressive a lipoma, which the Mayo Clinic describes arsenic a “fatty tumor … it isn’t crab and is usually harmless.” Harris, who signed a three-year declaration successful March, has practiced some days this week. “It was successful my precocious backmost and it was truly uncomfortable and I started feeling it due to the fact that I was sleeping connected it and started to consciousness the tightness,” helium said. “Got it removed. Feeling good, feeling great, acceptable to predominate — I similar that.”

*Jeudy has posted his goals for the play connected his bath mirror. “I judge successful penning down my goals and accomplishing them,” helium said.

*RT Calvin Anderson again saw the first-team work.

*A constricted fig of Broncos single-game tickets (full- and half-price) volition spell connected merchantability Thursday astatine 10 a.m. done Ticketmaster. A full of 2,000 half-price tickets, starting astatine $15, volition beryllium disposable per crippled (limit 4 per household), can’t beryllium re-sold oregon transferred and volition beryllium delivered to the buyer’s mobile instrumentality connected the time of the game. Also disposable astatine the aforesaid clip volition beryllium a constricted magnitude of nine seats connected the East and West sides of the stadium. The team’s season-ticket hold database is astatine 90,000.