As we detailed earlier this week, one of the most important questions heading into training camp is who will be the Denver Broncos starting quarterback come Week 1?
From everything head coach Gary Kubiak has told the media, the team will enter training camp with a true quarterback competition, giving Mark Sanchez, Trevor Siemian and Paxton Lynch the opportunity to prove they’re the man for the job.
According to defensive tackle Sylvester Williams, though, Kubiak has given the team a somewhat different message.
“Right now, they’re giving all three of those guys equal reps, so I don’t think either one of them has created any advantage at this point, because they haven’t consistently been with the ones yet,” Williams told Tom Pelissero and Bill Polian on Sirius XM NFL Radio. “But I think, going into the camp, I think Coach Kub kind of let us know he’s going to go with Mark and give Mark the opportunity to see what he can do and then go on from there.”
And it make sense. Even if the Broncos envision Lynch as the future of the franchise, this is the defending Super Bowl champions; a mature, experienced option at quarterback gives them the best chance to repeat. And it seems as if the team is behind that idea, too.
“I think we’ve got one of the greatest offensive minds in Coach Kub as the head man, so I think with him out there with the guys and everything, he’s going to stay on them tough,” Williams said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in the meetings every day with them. I think we’re going to be alright at the quarterback position. But if I had to personally go with a guy and pick a guy that I thought would win the job, I think it will be Mark Sanchez.”
The good news is that we’ll all get to find out a week from today when training camp opens up for the 2016-17 season.
