Entering Sunday’s must-win game against the Chargers, the status of a couple of the Broncos’ main offensive catalysts is still in question.
Broncos coach Vic Fangio said running back Phillip Lindsay, who suffered a concussion in last week’s blowout loss to Kansas City, still has to complete one more test with the independent concussion protocol in order to be cleared for Sunday.
“We’ll find out on Phillip later (on Saturday),” Fangio said. “He was a full participant in everything (on Saturday).”
After missing three games with a toe injury earlier this season, Lindsay suffered the concussion late in the first half last week, when he took a hard shot near the head by Chiefs safety Daniel Sorenson. Having rushed for 79 yards at that point, the 26-year-old was on pace for his second 100-yard game in three games played this year, after scampering for 101 yards in a Week 6 win in New England.
Meanwhile, the Broncos also might be without wideout Tim Patrick, who leads the team with 354 receiving yards but did not practice this week due to a hamstring injury.
“We won’t know on Tim until (Sunday),” Fangio said. “We may work him before the game, but he’s definitely questionable.”
Patrick’s absence would mean more weight on the shoulders of rookie wideouts Jerry Jeudy and KJ Hamler, as the Broncos are also without Diontae Spencer (will miss his second straight game with a shoulder injury) on top of losing Courtland Sutton to a season-ending knee injury in Week 2.
Reshuffled O-line. With starting right guard Graham Glasgow on the Reserve/COVID-19 list, fellow offensive linemen Demar Dotson and Austin Schlottmann were in self-isolation this week — and were estimated as non-participants for Friday’s practice that was pushed to Saturday due to Glasgow’s positive test.
But both Dotson and Schlottmann were at practice Saturday, which is good news for a unit that already lost one starter to a season-ending injury in Elijah Wilkinson. On Sunday against Los Angeles, Dotson will start at right tackle (as he’s done since Wilkinson went down in Week 3) and Schlottmann at right guard in place of Glasgow.
“They’re both cleared to go, which is a credit to them and the entire operation here,” Fangio said. “They were cleared because we’ve been under these (intensive) protocols, and we’ve chosen voluntarily to be under those intensive protocols.”
Schlottmann played 32 snaps in Denver’s Week 6 win in New England in place of an injured Dalton Risner, and he made four starts at right guard last year after spending his rookie season in 2018 on the practice squad.
“We feel good about Schlottmann,” Fangio said. “He’ll do a good job.”
Cox gets the call. With Andrew Beck out with a hamstring injury, Fangio said Jeremy Cox will be promoted to the 53-man roster Sunday. Cox will fill the fullback role in Beck’s absence.
Cox, who had twice previously been elevated to the active roster on game day only to return to the practice squad, has used up that eligibility. Now, if he gets sent back to the practice squad again, per NFL rules the Broncos will have to expose him to waivers.
“He’s a good, young player who has potential,” Fangio said. “Obviously he’s had to be thrown into the fire here with not much work… There isn’t a lot of time he’s been in there in live situations. But we like his potential and where he’s at, and I’m anxious to see him play.”
Cox was initially signed by the Broncos to a futures contract on Dec. 31, 2019, after entering the NFL out of Old Dominion as a college free agent with the Chargers earlier in that year. Los Angeles eventually waived him before the season started.
Other injury updates. Outside linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu (quad) and tight end Jake Butt (hamstring) were limited in practice all week and are questionable for Sunday.
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