Denver Broncos: How was Brandon Allen’s starting debut?

Arm talent/ball placement

Although Allen put up nice numbers, it was apparent his ball placement was a bit off at times and he didn’t really have to gun many balls into tight windows.

The Broncos schemed a variety of high-percentage throws — and that is going to be mostly sustainable — so that Allen didn’t have to thread the needle, really at all.

As a matter of fact, Allen’s best throw of the day was the play that never was, a near-80-yard touchdown throw to Diontae Spencer that fell incomplete.

His other really nice throws were play-action passes to Noah Fant. Allen showed he can throw the ball accurately on the run on a nice rollout to his right and a completion to Fant near the sideline, then again with pressure bearing down off play-action as Fant came across the middle of the field free and clear.

The touchdown throw to Courtland Sutton was a 50-50 ball because Sutton was out there, but in reality, it wasn’t a great throw by Allen and more of an incredible catch by Sutton.

The touchdown play to Fant was a nice throw by Allen, but it was more the effort of Fant that made that play so great.

Again, Allen was making correct reads and throwing a catchable ball, but these were not other-worldly throws in my opinion.

There were a couple of balls that sailed, were tipped, or were behind receivers. Allen’s accuracy wasn’t great in this game, but it was right about where it needed to be for the Broncos to find some life offensively.

Allen was bailed out of an easy tip-drill interception when Myles Garrett couldn’t reel an absolute gift in, but for the most part, there were no throws from Allen that looked like he made an ill-advised decision pre-snap or in terms of going through his reads after the snap.