Five reasons Broncos QB Trevor Siemian is underrated

2. He ‘lucked’ into a job

This is one of the great arguments circulating Twitter in recent months, particularly among Broncos fans.

The argument is that Siemian has lucked into the Broncos quarterback job two years in a row, and that he simply had to make fewer mistakes than other guys around him in order to play.

There may be some truth to this from 2016, where Siemian was the only quarterback on the roster who knew the Gary Kubiak offense and Mark Sanchez was the alternative, along with rookie Paxton Lynch who was swimming in a deep sea of information he wasn’t processing very quickly.

What’s remarkable about this to me is people aren’t seeing that Siemian certainly played the best of any of the quarterbacks in the 2016 preseason and training camp, and quite honestly, he showed the best arm talent in camp his rookie year but no one would want to admit that.

Even if you concede that Siemian lucked into the job in 2016 given all the circumstances surrounding the Broncos that offseason, I can’t agree that Siemian was handed anything in 2017, when the Broncos tried their hardest to let Paxton Lynch win the job.

Siemian was clearly the better player this year, and to be honest, he handled a ‘competition’ much better than I probably would have, given there should have been no competition at all.