Denver Broncos: 5 players who won’t be back with team in 2022

Teddy Bridgewater, Quarterback

Teddy Bridgewater has played well at times this season, but he’s also played really bad at others. Simply put, he’s not the long-term answer at quarterback for this team and if the losses keep mounting, he shouldn’t even be the starting quarterback anymore.

The Broncos traded for Bridgewater on draft night and it seemed like a move to get a competent veteran in camp to push Drew Lock. Instead, the team ended up giving him Lock’s starting job.

Bridgewater will be an unrestricted free agent at season’s end and the market for him won’t be big unless a team needs a good backup, but the Broncos need to be out on him on all fronts.

Soon, Vic Fangio needs to turn the keys over to Lock to give the organization a chance to see what they actually have in him. No, that has not been accomplished yet as Lock has been given bits and pieces of what could be, but never a true, full evaluation.

His ceiling is definitely higher than that of Bridgewater and that can’t be debated. And if he is not it and the Broncos continue to pile up losses, they will be selecting with a high pick in the first round of the draft.

That pick could be used on one of these quarterbacks.