They guys on MHR probably didnt have the Broncos medical staff and attention to rehab this injury or the opportunity for first rate surgeons to repair this injury. Plus nobody really knows how bad it is until the doctors go in and repair it. I tend to side on the opptomistic part of everything

As the other one who has had they’re elbow broke getting it hyperextended (nothing like watching your arm bend the wrongway), you can recover from the injury, my right arm (broken one) is a little stronger now then my left, but it does take a lot of time, when you have to have your arm imobile for 6 weeks in a cast, your muscles start to shrink, and that’s what takes time to get them back in shape, and I am sure some ligments will need to be worked on. I never got an MRI, just a bucnh of x-rays and they said I lucked out in that they didn’t have to put pins in, which would of been a longer rehab. I think people are fooling themselves in thinking he will play this year.

I live in Seahawk country and have watched the digression of Shawn the last few years. He is a hesitant tippy-toeer that would do well at all in our one-cut system.

Let’s just pray for Torains quick recovery.

And he ended up on PUP then IR.

Active PUP and InActive PUP….

The Active PUP allows players to start training camp on the list, but they can come off at any time. Once you practice, however, you cannot be placed back on the Active PUP. The player still counts against the 80 man roster limit at this time.

The inactive PUP is the one you are likely more familiar with. Once placed on the InActive PUP, you are out of action, no practices, nothing, for the first 6 weeks of the season. The player is also NOT part of the active roster. After that, the player is allowed to practice for 3 weeks before the team has to make a decision on his roster status. If the player is activated, a roster move is required. If not, the player is placed on IR.

I hope that clears it up for you….

This might work out OK after all.

Good break for Aldridge. I also see Aldridge or Hall returning since Royal will be starting wide out (next year).

...and I agree.

Looking at from the football perspective—Torain’s injury hurts the Broncos’ ability to run the ball in the red zone. We still have Pittman, as well as Hillis and the other FBs, but Torain’s loss appears to affect their power running ability in the red zone, and that was one area that they’d love to improve.

The question in my mind is whether they can adapt by changing their strategy somewhat. And they also still have some ability to run the ball in the red zone since it’s not a black and white situation, but they do lose Torain’s apparent proficiency in the area. There are still other red zone options that they can employ which are better suited to their current personnel. But admittedly, I still see it as a loss in this area.

Keeping Alridge on the roster strengthens them in a different area. I don’t know if the Broncos would have kept him on the regular roster given the numbers at RB. I’m hesitant to frame the roster decision on Alridge as contingent onTorain’s loss but depth at RB is obviously an important part of the roster decision concerning whether they keep him. I guess we can make a somewhat tentative conclusion that keeping Alridge may take us in a slightly different direction on offense. The remaining and unanswered question is how, as well as how well, they perform and adapt their strategy to achieve greater success in the red zone offense. Their short passing game - another weakness - may figure into this.