Trevor Siemian: Broncos QB Wild Card
Who doesn’t love surprises?
The Denver Broncos have been using the Seattle Seahawks as a blueprint for their current success. Defensively, the team is better than the Seahawks in every way. Broncos have three shutdown corners to the Seahawks one, Richard Sherman. Pass rushers are on an equal playing field with Von Miller, DeMarcus Ware, Shaquille Barrett and Shane Ray. In fact, Broncos may have more of a balanced pass rushing attack than the Seahawks.
After the traumatic loss in Super Bowl 48, John Elway has revamped the defense building it the Seattle way via free agency. Yet, there is one area that may go under the radar that continues the Seahawks blueprint: quarterback.
The Broncos had drafted Paxton Lynch to be the quarterback of the future. Mark Sanchez is certainly capable of taking the team back to the postseason. However, like Matt Flynn and Russell Wilson in Seattle, there is a wildcard waiting in the wings in the Broncos quarterback situation: Trevor Siemian.
If Siemian were to win the quarterback position in preseason it would be the most Seahawk thing for the Broncos. Siemian in just his short stint with Broncos has performed better than Zac Dysert in the preseason making throws an NFL starter would make.
As evidenced by that throw to Bennie Fowler, Siemian had impressed the coaches last year for them to say Siemian slings the ball like Aaron Rodgers. If what the coaches say is true, Siemian deserves every shot at the quarterback position. He may not just win the job, but play at a higher level no one saw while at Northwestern.
For coaches to make that assertion in just one preseason, means Siemian has the makings to be a solid NFL starter. Even Broncos great, Rod Smith, has stated in speaking to the wide receivers, the way Siemian throws passes to them makes it easy to be the playmaker on offense.
It would still be better for the Broncos to start Lynch at sometime during the season, but Siemian could change that by his play on the field proving to be the Russell Wilson wild card in the Broncos quarterback dilemma.