He will likely join Carlton Powell on IR for the season. :(

To me, Powell and Torain are both equally big blows to this team….losing Lynch hurt too. 13-3 is looking less and less like a possibility. :(

I wonder how MHR radio will turn out tonight…doom and gloom!

They are as big as a loss as you think. Sure they hurt, but Denver has depth at RB, and at Safety. Maybe you lose some leadership in the lockerroom without Lynch, but really he wasnt going to play that much

I really really really hate training camp injuries!!!!!! They’re so discouraging and have been absolutely killing us the last couple of years. =/

Do you guys remember Elway triceps injury in his last year’s (or 2nd to last?) training camp? I remember absolutely freaking out about that one. Luckily, we had superman disguised as a QB and healed fast.

and this is exactly why we shouldn’t expect so much from the running backs. What we have here is a collection of backs who are not only unproven in a talent sense, but more importantly unproven in a durability sense. Yes, Torain sounds like a perfect fit for the Broncos…but every scouting report I’ve ever read about him is littered with injury reports. The same goes for Selvin Young, and then you look at Hall and Alridge…they’re tiny! Again, I am hopeful that someone will emerge and lead the running attack, but expect it? Certainly not.

Not sure how many of you follow baseball, but I’m a big Mets fan as well. There is a parallel – Omar Minaya stocked the Mets with players in their late-30’s and expected them all to remain healthy for the season – Pedro, El Duque, Moises Alou…of course they haven’t, yet the club’s response to losing is “well, we’ve lost so many guys to injuries!” I hope hope hope the same isn’t about to happen in Denver, but the chances of a Young/Hall tandem surviving a 4 game pre-season and then a 16 game regular season are slim to none. We can all hope, just don’t count on it.

LJ: 6-1, 230
Torain: 6-1, 225
Portis: 5-11, 221
LT: 5-10, 221
AP: 6-1, 217
Selvin: 5-11, 215
Hall: 5-10, 210
Alridge: 5-9, 185

These numbers are from nfl.com which admittedly may not be 100% accurate… but Selvin and Ryan are on par with the others by only a few pounds. Hall is definitely on the small size, and then Alridge is absolutely tiny…

In any case, my feeling is that:

a) The Broncos seem to have the injury bug over the last few years (I’m sure more than a few other fans here would feel the same way)
b) The problem is not just the size, but the power, the muscle, and the speed of the players in this day and age. Not just the Broncos, but I remember last season I commented to my wife how I felt like injuries were at a much higher volume than I could remember anytime before.

On the first point, I’ve also begun to wonder if Greek is truly that great at preparing our players for the rigors of a full season in the offseason conditioning program. Perhaps, his program needs to be evaluated and compared with other less-injured team’s programs??

On the second point, there really isn’t much that can be done… we can’t really tell these kids to stop getting so big and strong. Maybe they just need to be drinking more milk!! =/

I amnot buying into all this gloom and doom. If anything history shows that Denver has done quite ok in the running back dept. Plus wasnt Torian predicted to the 3rd string RB? Lets get a grip here, and realize this isnt the end of the season.

RELAX!!! This is a 3rd string RB. This is NOT a season ender….this is NOT going to cost us games. To paraphrase Zim quoting the Dalai Lama, “sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is not getting what you want”. This could be just the thing that could give someone like Alridge a shot. Every one of the backs has looked great in training camp. As of now we have 7 backs (FB and HB). While I’m excited about Torain’s potential…if there is anywhere that we can absorb an injury it’s at RB.

I was looking forward to what Torain could do. Still, he wasn’t the starter. Now if we’re down to starting third-, fourth-, and fifth-stringers at some point during the season, that’s a problem. I mean, some team I know is trying to use twenty-eighth-stringers to get by on a hope and a prayer during the middle of a season . . .

He can go on the PUP, and be activated any time before six games into the regular season. That’s 10 weeks from now. Thankfully, it was an arm injury, not a leg injury.

I had the same exact injury, and trust me, he will be out for the season. It takes s4 weeks to heel the break, then anothre 2 to 3 months to get full range of movement in your arm and strength back. Very painful rehab too, I spent many a night just trying to throw a softball 30 feet to get the motion back, I could hear bone scraping off in my elbow every time, because of the calcium build-up. I expected that Torain was going to be the starter this season, and have a great rookie year, but looks like him and Hillis will probably end up on the IR, hope the other guys can pick up the slack.

This sucks. You never know when somebody is going to step up when given the chance. I man when Smith and Walker were hurt, Marshall stepped up big time. While I am bummed he got injured, hopefully someone will shine in his absence.

This happend one month before the season started so depending on how serious the injury is he may only miss a couple of games. I mean this is all assuming he was going to get some serious playing time.

will probably be a happier camper in the long run, which in terms of Torain vs. Pittman is actually the short run….