Denver Broncos: Quarterback review vs. Chicago Bears

Even in just one half of football, I think it’s pretty clear to see that Paxton Lynch has the most natural talent of the Broncos’ young quarterback stable. I don’t say that as a slight to the other guys, it’s just true.

Lynch’s arm talent is unreal, and his athletic ability for his size is outstanding. The question isn’t ‘if’ Paxton Lynch is going to be the Broncos’ starting quarterback, it’s ‘when?’.

Lynch didn’t do anything overly spectacular in terms of throwing a ball 50 yards downfield or anything like that, but he was really solid on the night as a whole, completing 6-of-7 passes for 74 yards.  This play on play-action was one of my favorite plays of the entire game offensively for the Broncos.

That’s a play that was borderline physically impossible for the Broncos to make last season. Lynch made a number of good throws to the middle of the field that were pretty basic pitch-and-catch throws, but the Broncos gave him a couple of difficult throws to make downfield as well. He also took a couple of sacks and showed off his athleticism on some running plays.

There are a couple of throws in there that show off Lynch’s ability to execute the play-action and a deep drop and then use his arm strength to gun the ball down the field. The deep out on the far side of the field off of play-action to DeVier Posey may have been the most impressive throw of the day for Lynch, who did everything except score the ball in his rookie debut.

Hopefully next time out, he’s able to put the ball in the end zone and prove a little more of his skill set.