Day Five: Broncos Training Camp Observations

Paxton Lynch

The Broncos coaches have seen terrific improvement in Paxton Lynch’s development. Lynch worked with the two and three’s mostly in day five of camp, but dazzled with strong arm and accuracy. There were three plays in Broncos camp where Lynch’s strong arm was in full display. Lynch rolled quickly to his right and fired a cannon throw to Cody Latimer with a defensive back all over the receiver. Second, Lynch made a Brett Favre-like laser between two defenders to tight end Garrett Graham for a touchdown. Lastly, at the end of camp Lynch made a trust throw to early camp wonder, Jordan Taylor who grabbed the ball over the defensive back ending camp on a high note.

Lynch’s confidence is growing by the day after he practices. It will only be a matter of time before he gets to work with the first string on a regular basis. For the Broncos to see success from Lynch, they will need to see his arm in action against other teams in preseason. Lynch can make his biggest statement for the starting job because of his mobility and electric arm strength as a six-foot, seven quarterback. If you have yet come to training camp, I highly recommend coming just to watch Lynch. He is worth the price of admission, which is free.

The mobility of Lynch is vastly underrated. Most of the plays ran in college were screens; however, when given the opportunity to roll-out on designed play actions will be nightmares for opposing teams to cover. Any quarterback can have a quick delivery on tight end screens or bubble screens, but Lynch’s delivery is faster than most. His delivery would give Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas a step ahead on the defensive backs making it darn near impossible to stop.

In my opinion, Lynch and Trevor Siemian will overtake Mark Sanchez in the quarterback in preseason.

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