The Denver Broncos took the field for the first day of the second week of OTAs on Tuesday and, once again, the entire practice was open to the media. BSN Denver was on hand to bring you our takeaways from the practice.

No clear leader at QB

As will be the case until they name a starter, all eyes were on the quarterbacks today, here’s what we saw from the signal-callers:

Mark Sanchez

Sanchez practiced without the brace he had on last week, he had just a wrap on the left thumb that he underwent surgery on earlier this month. The healed hand was able to take live snaps for the first time since OTAs began, Sanchez said afterward that he didn’t even feel the thumb today.

Despite the stronger hand, Sanchez had a bit of a shaky start to the practice, missing a short crossing route on the first play of 7-on-7 work and appearing to be a bit indecisive with his reads. He missed Emmanuel Sanders on a deep out after he had beaten Aqib Talib, leaving Sanders visibly upset.

The veteran settled in throughout the practice and had his best work of the day in the 11-on-11 period, which he highlighted by hitting Sanders in between Talib and Darian Stewart for a 40-plus-yard yard touchdown, the longest play of the day for the offense.

Sanchez was picked off once in the 11-on work, but it was on a ball that hit DeMaryius Thomas in the hands and was tipped right to Stewart.

All in all, it was a not-great-yet-not-horrible day for Sanchez.

Paxton Lynch

After being the star of the show during the last practice that was open to media, Paxton came down to earth a bit on Tuesday. Footwork seems to be the biggest hurdle for him as he learns more of the under-center offense. His feet are clearly a step slower than the other two QBs but that should be expected, to an extent, considering how much longer the 6-foot-7 gazelle’s legs are.

While the feet remain a question, the arm certainly is not for Lynch. He has what I would call “effortless velocity” on his throws, he releases the ball with what seems like a relatively gentle throwing motion and all of the sudden that ball is on the receiver’s hands. Lynch displays this most effectively on deeper hook routes.

When things get tough, it seems that’s when Lynch likes to look to his old buddy from Memphis, wide receiver Mose Frazier. You often hear about how important it is for a quarterback to have chemistry with his receivers and the chemistry with Frazier is visible. Paxton’s two best (and longest) balls of the day landed in the hands of Frazier, one on a post and one on a corner.

After practice, Gary Kubiak mentioned that both Trevor Siemian and Sanchez are well ahead of Lynch in terms of their understanding of the offense but that is not for a lack of effort on Lynch’s part, he told media that he doesn’t have any free time right now—wakes up at 5, is at the facility until dinner time, read his playbook until 7 or 8 and then gets into bed.

There’s certainly a lot of work to be done for the young Lynch, who was almost picked off by Aqib Talib for the second consecutive practice on Tuesday (Talib dropped it), but he seems hell bent on getting that work done.

Trevor Siemian

In my opinion, Siemian had the best day of any of the QBs on Tuesday. The second-year man out of Northwester was showcasing that strong arm everybody has raved about since his college days, threading the ball into some extremely tight windows for completions that had the defense shaking their heads.

Seemingly the quietest of the three, Siemian has a just-goes-about-his-work vibe to him. He’s not necessarily flashy and certainly isn’t going to put out any eye-opening quotes but it’s becoming clear that Elway and Kubiak weren’t exactly BS-ing everybody when they talked about the potential in the kid. In what’s seemingly an open competition, Siemian is, at the very least, not out of it.

He was picked off by Darius Kilgo during 11-on-11 work after big Phil Taylor tipped a pass but it was more of an exceptional play by the two lineman than anything else.

All in all, it seems the quarterback competition is as wide open as the Broncos are making it out to be, the players are splitting reps evenly and, in this short time, none have grabbed the reins and put their head above the rest.

Young WRs

The Broncos certainly do not have a talent shortage at wide receiver.

Of course, there’s Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders, the cream of the crop. Then there’s the guys who have been here, the guys you already know of, the Bennie Fowlers, Jordan Norwoods and Cody Latimers of the squad. Tier three, though, is where things get really interesting.

You’ve heard of Jordan Taylor, “Sunshine” as Peyton Manning called him, a guy that folks around the building are very fond of, alongside him is a stable of young pass-catchers that all have displayed high-level ability.

Kalif Raymond is a 5-foot-9 speedster out of Holy Cross that has not only displayed his ability to get open but could also be a playmaker in the return game.

Mose Frazier, as mentioned above, has great chemistry with Paxton Lynch which alone could go a long way to helping him stay around here and has also displayed some impressive quicks, especially after the catch.

The unknown, still, is Bralon Addison an undrafted rookie out of Oregon who was a big playmaker in the Northwest. Due to the school system up there, Addison still hasn’t graduated and thus cannot join the team yet. He’s another guy with impressive speed who could use his return capability as an avenue onto the team.

Even Devier Posey is a guy who, in college, showed impressive skills.

In the end, though, all of those guys will be competing for five, maybe six spots on the team, the sixth spot likely being dependent on if one of them proves to be dynamic in the return game. Just another position where the battle for spots will be intriguing.

Show me time for Bibbs

Kapri Bibbs is a talented running back out of Colorado State, but as he heads into his third year with the team the message has become clear to him—use the toilet or get off it–if you know what I’m saying.

The Broncos, though, seem to want to give Bibbs every opportunity to show he belongs around here. On Tuesday, Bibbs was getting work with the top units, more than some of the other backs around him, excluding CJ Anderson.

With Ronnie Hillman, Juwan Thompson, Devontae Booker and Cyrus Gray all in the mix at RB, every player will get their time to prove themselves but it seems like Gary Kubiak and staff really want Bibbs to take that opportunity.

Keep and eye on the young tight ends

You already know about guys like Virgil Green, Garret Graham and Jeff Heuerman but a couple young players have been getting noticed out on the field as well.

With Heuerman out on Tuesday due to some hamstring soreness, young guys Manasseh Garner and Henry Krieger-Coble got increased reps and both seemed to make the most of them.

Garner, a 6-foot-2, 240-pounder out of Pittsburgh seems to be the guy I’ve hear people say, “Who is that?” about the most. A big guy with some big dreads to go along with it certainly stands out whenever he makes a play and he keeps making them.

Krieger-Coble is a sound player out of Iowa who got one of the bigger signing bonuses of any of the Broncos undrafted signees, the Broncos seems to be trying to throw him into the fire against the big boys to see what he can really do.

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