ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — “It’s not going to change daily,” head coach Vance Joseph said of his quarterback competition. “That’s important because you don’t want to leave here everyday thinking, ‘Woah Paxton’s the guy,’ and tomorrow ‘Trevor’s the guy.’ We can’t do that.”

Fortunately for you, here at BSN Denver, we can do that, and while we won’t be declaring who is going to be “the guy” every day, we are going to declare who was the guy that day.

Siemian Sharp as a Tack

After a slow start to camp, Trevor Siemian was absolutely on fire on Saturday morning at the UC Health Training Center. Folks, believe us when we tell you it was an absolute clinic.

Coach Joseph wasted no time in throwing the quarterbacks into the fire, opening drills with 11-on-11 and Siemian as QB1. The third-year man started things off with a sharp throw to A.J. Derby, who also shined on the day, for a 10-15 yard gain and a first down.

On the next play, Siemian had a wide open Emmanuel Sanders deep down the field for a would-be easy touchdown. He missed him, overthrown by just a few feet.

That was just about the last throw No. 13 missed all day.

After a short, full-team period, the Broncos moved to one-on-one work. One receiver, one cornerback and a QB. On the first play of the drill, Sanders made a quick move, got a step on Aqib Talib and beelined for the end zone, where Siemian perfectly feathered the ball into his hands 40 yards down the field.

On the very next play, Demaryius Thomas got a step on Chris Harris Jr. and received the exact same, perfectly-thrown ball on the opposite side of the field for the same touchdown result.

A few plays later, it was Kalif Raymond who got himself open caught a 40-yard touchdown of his own from Siemian.

Next, the Broncos moved on to seven-on-seven work and guess what? Same result. Bang. Bang. Siemian to Sanders, 50 yards, touchdown. On their next opportunity? Siemian to Sanders, 50 yards, touchdown.

Get the point? Trevor Siemian was on fire, and it wasn’t just the deep passes. The man was sharp on just about all of his throws. The incumbent starter needed a bounce-back day, and he delivered that and more.

Lynch Lags

After showing out in the areas he wasn’t exactly expected to over the first couple days of camp (short to intermediate), Lynch struggled on the day that you would have expected to best play to his strengths.

It wasn’t necessarily an out-and-out bad day for Paxton. The young quarterback made some very nice throws, including a beautiful toss on a flag route to A.J. Derby, hitting him in the hands between two defenders, as well as a lovely touch pass over the outstretched hand of Von Miller to hit Virgil Green for a TD in one-on-one work. But all observers agreed that Lynch did not have his best stuff on the day.

Early in the one-on-one period, the former first-round pick was nearly intercepted twice while targeting Cody Latimer and Kalif Raymond. Akin to the Paxton we saw last season, though, he bounced back with a beautiful deep-out throw to Sanders.

Overall, it was Lynch’s worst performance of camp, with consistent inaccuracy and multiple ill-advised decisions.

Play of the day

Your pick from the myriad of deep touchdown throws from Siemian, with honorable mention going to Lynch’s throw to Derby for highest degree of difficulty.

Scoreboard

If you’ve read to this point, you know the answer to this, but the blowout nature of the day brings up an important question: how exactly do you score this thing?

If we’re just giving out one “point” every day to the winner, then the scoreboard is at an obvious 2-1 in favor of Paxton Lynch, but a day like Saturday makes you wonder if the scoreboard should be more nuanced than that.

Let’s say each day there are 10 possible points awarded: Thursday would have been around 6-4 in favor of Paxton Lynch, Friday would have been around 7-3 in Lynch’s favor and Saturday would have been 8-2 for Siemian. In that case, instead of 2-1 Lynch, we’re sitting at a 15-15 tie.

Obviously, both numbers are arbitrary because we don’t know exactly how the Broncos brass is evaluating it, but from here on out, we’ll keep both scores as a point of reference.

Day-to-day score: 2-1, Lynch

10-point scale score: 15-15