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Broncos coach Gary Kubiak showed the younger players a video of Terrell Davis and how the Denver running back covered a kick early in his standout career.
There's plenty to digest as Heuerman and the rest of the Denver Broncos rookies try to get up to speed in a minicamp before Peyton Manning & Co. arrive on the field. The biggest thing Heuerman has already discovered is quite simple: "I go opposite the quarterback" out of the huddle, he said, laughing.
Ray is obviously a cinch to make this squad. But there's some real intrigue in regard to the college free agents on the team, since the Broncos have had one make the active roster out of training camp for 11 straight years.
"This is a little different than what we ran in college," said Heuerman, who made a one-handed grab in a workout held indoors because of rain. "But it's nice to get out there and run around and compete a little bit."
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Pro Bowl cornerback Chris Harris Jr. remains one of the bigger success stories. He went undrafted out of Kansas, got a $2,000 bonus in 2011 and played his way into a lucrative five-year contract extension worth $42.5 million last December.
That was more than first-round pick Shane Ray got to do Friday. Still hampered by a hyperextended right big toe, the outside linebacker out of Missouri was more observer than pass rusher.
Ray was wearing No. 56 — the number he donned at Missouri — after persuading fellow linebacker Shaquil Barrett to switch with him. It came at a price, though.
"The story of how he got noticed as a player," Kubiak explained. "You are just trying to prove who you are and how you can take the thing from the meeting room to the practice field."
The second-rounder out of Colorado State has plenty of studying to do before then.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Before Friday, third-round draft pick Jeff Heuerman had never really heard a play called from inside a huddle. Or, for that matter, even been inside a huddle.
It's been a roller-coaster past few days for Ray,China Jerseys Cheap, who slid down the board after receiving a citation for possession of pot three days before the draft. The No. 23 overall pick reiterated Friday it was a mistake he wouldn't make again.
"I feel like I'm getting better every week,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale," Ray said. "When they (medical staff) think it's the right time to get back to doing what I do, they'll bring me out."
"Told them it will take a few days," Sambrailo said. "Have to suck it up and know it will get better."
Offensive lineman Ty Sambrailo said things became "pretty real" when he was handed a helmet with a Broncos logo on it. And even more so knowing he will have to protect Manning.
A good thing to know.
And if you have a joke about the irony of him landing in a place where marijuana is legal, save it, because Ray's heard them all.
"Kind of learning the new language will take a little bit, but once that kicks in, it'll be pretty easy," Sambrailo said.
"Not a big deal," Ray said with a casual shrug.
"It really doesn't faze me,Cheap NFL Jerseys," Ray said. "It would be different if I had a serious history of issues with marijuana and stuff like that, but I don't.
Not the tight end's fault. At Ohio State, his team simply ran an uptempo system.
"I focus on moving past that and getting ready to play football."
Center Max Garcia isn't sure which is worse: the humidity at the University of Florida or the thin air in Denver. |
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