Training camp, where full-time members of the media can watch full-grown men become big-time Broncos. Whistle toots, hot takes and fresh cut grass fill the air as we file in to see which quarterback gets the highest number of reps. It truly is quite the scene as men drenched in ego watch other men (in shorts) play a game.
We do love us some football.
The 2016 Broncos lost some players, as happens in the NFL. Danny Trevathan is off to bear the cold in Chicago, Malik Jackson is going to be taxing offenses in Miami and David Bruton is on a team which we dare not speak its name. The Broncos lost some good men to the meat market, but they brought in a some tasty treats which all will enjoy consuming in fandom soon.
Here are three new additions to the Broncos’ roster that could quickly become fan favorites:
Andy Janovich
Nebraska will produce just over 1.5 billion bushels of corn in any given year. This year, though, they produced a fullback named Andy Janovich, a bone crushing, hole opening, flat catching, belly full of old timey football tradition that is a Nebraska Cornhusker fullback.
And Denver is going to love him.
Like most fullbacks, the fans love seeing a big man get the ball. Janovich will allow Kubiak to run the I, and I, for one, am thrilled. You want a hole opened up on 3rd and 1? Andy can do it. You want a play made on special teams? Andy is your guy.
Handy Andy can and will do it all.
Devontae Booker
“I’m not there to carry pads. I’m there to take someone’s job,” Devontae Booker, former Utah running back and fourth-round selection of the Broncos, said this offseason.
Booker probably won’t get out of pad duty, but he is going to carry some of the work load as well. It’s no secret that the Broncos are going to be a run-first, then run-it-again team in 2016, and Booker will get his carries.
C.J. Anderson got paid, and Ronnie Hillman is still there, as is former Colorado State back Kapri Bibbs, but Booker might be the most talented running back the Broncos have had in camp since a man named Terrell Davis.
Book it, Booker is going to be a star in the NFL.
Jared Crick
Not flashy, and not front-page news, the signing of former Cornhusker Jared Crick might be the most-important piece to the Broncos additions this offseason.
Crick is set to replace some of the space left open by Malik Jackson, who left for the pristine beaches of Florida, and Malik will no doubt look amazing in a black and green jersey, sporting a ferocious, speckled kitty cat on the side of that two-tone helmet.
Yes, Jared Crick has some big shoes to fill, but filling space is his job, and he does his job well.
