Bortles had actually not appeared in a video game for the Broncos after he was signed Sept. 24. The Broncos had actually brought 4 quarterbacks on the 53-man lineup as Drew Lock worked his way back from a right (throwing) shoulder injury suffered in Week 2, but Lock practiced totally this past week and is poised to begin Sunday against the Patriots.
The Broncos other two quarterbacks– Brett Rypien and Jeff Driskel– each began games during Locks absence, so the Broncos requirement at defensive take on outweighed the need for 4 quarterbacks.
With three protective linemen on injured reserve– Jurrell Casey (out for the season), DreMont Jones and DeMarcus Walker– the Broncos required Williams on the roster. Williams was the Broncos first-round choice in the 2013 draft.
The Broncos also said Saturday that running backs coach Curtis Modkins will not take a trip with the group to New England after checking positive for COVID-19.
” Curtis is currently in the house in self-isolation and experiencing no signs,” the team stated in a statement.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.– Denver Broncos running back Melvin Gordon III will stay in Denver as the group is set up to travel for Sundays game versus the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Gordon is being dealt with for strep throat by the teams medical staff, sources confirmed to ESPN, and did not participate in the teams Saturday morning walk-through. Gordon will not take a trip with the team later Saturday and will not play in Sundays arranged game.
Tight end Noah Fant (ankle injury) also has been eliminated against the Patriots. Fant has a team-high 19 catches this season for 219 backyards and 2 TDs.
Gordon did not practice Friday due to the fact that of the disease and was sent home from the teams facility as the groups doctors initially attempted to determine if his symptoms were COVID-19 related.
After Fridays practice, Broncos coach Vic Fangio fasted to state Gordons health problem was” [an] health problem absolutely unrelated with COVID.”.
Gordon presently leads the team in brings (65 ), hurrying backyards (281) and hurrying goals (3 ). His illness can be found in a week when he still could face group discipline in the weeks ahead, as well as much as a three-game suspension from the league, for his DUI arrest late Tuesday night.
Gordon was pointed out for both DUI and speeding– cops files reveal Gordon was clocked at 71 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone– late Tuesday night in downtown Denver. Gordon then did not practice Wednesday following the arrest, practiced Thursday, but did not practice Friday when he became ill.
Gordon signed a two-year, $16 million handle the Broncos this previous offseason and had his very first 100-yard rushing video game with the team, consisting of a 43-yard goal run in the closing minutes, in the Oct. 1 win over the New York Jets.
Phillip Lindsay, who has actually hurried for at least 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons, is expected to start versus the Patriots Sunday. It will be Lindsays very first video game because he left the season opener in the very first half with a toe injury.
Lindsay and Royce Freeman are the only other running backs on the existing 53-man lineup, however Fangio stated Friday the Broncos would move Jeremy Cox approximately the active roster for the video game if Gordon did not travel.
The Broncos have not played considering that the win over the Jets, and the game against the Patriots has already been moved two times on the schedule because of several positive COVID-19 tests amongst the Patriots gamers and coaches over the past two weeks.
Sundays game was initially set up for Oct. 11, was then transferred to Oct. 12 before being moved again to Sunday.
Likewise, the Broncos released quarterback Blake Bortles to make space to move defensive take on Sylvester Williams, a former Broncos first-round choice, from the groups practice team to the active roster.
