Denver Broncos 5 Most Interesting Facts From 2020 NFL Season

Denver Broncos had another rough season, riddled with injuries and Covid risks. The virus hurt the Broncos the most when they faced the Saints without a single QB available. Not all was bad for Denver though, as Garrett Bolles had another elite season and the RB duo of Melvin Gordon and Phillip Lindsay looked very impressive throughout the year. Many consider Denver just a QB away (Deshaun Watson?) from being a championship contender in the AFC West.

NFL Team Facts From 2020 | Denver Broncos Facts to Know

Here are the 5 most interesting facts from the Denver Broncos 2020 NFL Season:

Unusual Game

Mile High Stadium hosted one of the most unusual games in NFL history, as the entire QB room was unavailable.

WR Kendall Hinton is the 1st non-QB to start at QB for an NFL team since Tom Matte made a pair of starts for the Colts (1965)
Broncos became the 1st team with more INT than CMP since the Chargers in 1998 against the Chiefs
Denver became the 1st team to complete only 1 pass and record fewer than 15 PASS YDS in a game since the 20th century
Broncos’ 0-7 passing in a 1st half is the worst in the NFL since the Chargers went 0-for-8 in 1991

DEN Stock Price: $7.14 (via FANDEX)

Blindside Protection

Broncos will have one of the best OTs in football locked up for the foreseeable future.

Broncos extended PFF’s highest-graded OT in 2020 (90.0 grade), Garett Bolles on a 4y/$68M deal
Garrett Bolles had the most pass-blocking snaps (584) without allowing 1 SK in the NFL by an OT in 2020
PFF’s highest-graded pass-blocking OT’s in 2020: 1. David Bakhtiari (91.6), 2. Andrew Whitworth (90.5), 3. Garett Bolles (87.9)

Lock the Future QB?

With a lot of question at the QB position, Denver will consider to give Drew Lock another chance in 2021

Players with 4+ PASS TD, 0 INT, & 75 CMP% in a game in DEN history: Lock (’20), P. Manning (4x), Elway (’84), & Morton (’81)
Youngest QB to ever win in the New England Patriots’ Gillette Stadium (23 years, 344 days)

Powerful RB Duo

Melvin Gordon and Phillip Lindsay were one of few bright spots of Denver’s 2020 season.

Melvin Gordon joins Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott as the only 3 players with 50+ TDs since 2016
Most RUSH YDS since 2015: Elliott (6,384), Gurley (6,082), Henry (5,860), Gordon (5,226), Gore (4,927)
Phillip Lindsay is the only player since the merger to have 450+ career rushes and 0 career fumbles