The Bron­cos won’t have their best cor­ner­back when they face Kansas City’s top-ranked pass­ing game and third-ranked scor­ing offense on Sun­day night.

Coach Vic Fan­gio said on Mon­day that Bryce Calla­han will miss “some time,” after sus­tain­ing a foot injury in Sunday’s 31–3 loss to New Orleans.

Calla­han missed all of 2019 because of dam­aged hard­ware in his left foot.

“Same foot (as last year); dif­fer­ent injury, though,” Fan­gio said.

Asked if Calla­han may miss the rest of the sea­son, Fan­gio said: “Too ear­ly to say just yet.”

Calla­han, the Bron­cos’ best cor­ner­back this year, has two inter­cep­tions and 42 tack­les this year. Rook­ie Michael Oje­mu­dia took his spot in the sec­ond half.

The news was bet­ter on run­ning back Phillip Lindsay.

Fan­gio said Lind­say “sus­tained what we think is a minor knee injury. There’s a chance he’ll be able to go this week.”

Lind­say was injured on the Bron­cos’ first offen­sive series of the sec­ond half when he car­ried out of the wild­cat for­ma­tion. After no gain, both of Lindsay’s knees were torqued awk­ward­ly when Saints defen­sive tack­le Ryan Glas­gow land­ed on him.

Lind­say trot­ted off the field, but was quick­ly ruled out of the game. This is Lindsay’s third injury of the year — he sus­tained a turf toe in the Week 1 loss to Ten­nessee and missed the next three games. In his return against Kansas City in Week 7, Lind­say depart­ed at half­time with a concussion.

For the sea­son, Lind­say has rushed 82 times for 414 yards and one touchdown.

Three QBs test neg­a­tive. Fan­gio said quar­ter­backs Drew Lock, Brett Ryp­i­en and Blake Bor­tles all test­ed neg­a­tive for COVID-19 on Mon­day and will be allowed back in the facil­i­ty if they test neg­a­tive on Tuesday.

Fan­gio dou­bled down on his postgame com­ments, tak­ing the quar­ter­back to task for the alleged violations.

“We’re all dis­ap­point­ed it hap­pened,” he said. “There were four of them in there and we’d like for one of them to take the lead and make sure they were spaced out far enough. They made a mis­take that we’re ready to move past.”

As hav­ing to watch the Bron­cos lose to New Orleans wasn’t enough for the quar­ter­backs, Fan­gio said addi­tion­al team-issued dis­ci­pline like a fine is possible.

“We’re going to con­sid­er all of that and again, try and see if the league has any­thing planned and if not, we’ll take our mea­sures,” he said.

It is unknown what the fine amount and process is for play­ers who were deemed to vio­late COVID-19 pro­to­cols. A CNBC arti­cle in August said play­ers can be fined for skip­ping a virus test­ing and up to a max­i­mum fine of $50,000 and also fines could be hand­ed out for not wear­ing a mask at the facil­i­ty or not wear­ing their trac­ing device.

In Octo­ber, accord­ing to ESPN, Wash­ing­ton quar­ter­back Dwayne Hask­ins was fined $4,833 for mak­ing a reser­va­tion for a fam­i­ly friend to stay at the team hotel in New Jersey.

Asked if the Bron­cos will con­sid­er iso­lat­ing Bor­tles to have an emer­gency quar­ter­back, Fan­gio said: “We haven’t yet. But that’s some­thing we will dis­cuss. I think if we just fol­low the pro­to­cols, we’ll be fine.”

Court date set. The tri­al fea­tur­ing the Pat Bowlen Trustees and his two old­est chil­dren, Amie Klem­mer and Beth Bowlen Wal­lace, has been resched­uled for July 12, 2021 in Ara­pa­hoe Coun­ty Dis­trict Court.

The case remains in Judge John Scipione’s court after he won re-elec­tion Nov. 3.

Klem­mer and Wal­lace want to have their father’s trust inval­i­dat­ed because they feel their father did not have the capac­i­ty to make deci­sions about his estate. Pat Bowlen, who bat­tled Alzheimer’s, died in June 2019.

The orig­i­nal tri­al date was Sept. 1.

Accord­ing to a source, the trustees have com­mu­ni­cat­ed there is no urgency to resolve the suit. The source said one pos­si­ble move for the trustees would ask Sci­p­i­one for per­mis­sion to sell the team.

The tri­al does not have to be com­plet­ed before the sale process can begin, accord­ing to the source because the trustees — Bron­cos president/CEO Joe Ellis, team coun­sel Rich Sliv­ka and local attor­ney Mary Kel­ly — remain in charge of man­ag­ing the trust’s assets, which includes the Broncos.

Pass­ing game futil­i­ty. The Saints didn’t have to pass much (9 of 16) and the Bron­cos were unable to pass (1 of 9).

The 91 com­bined pass­ing yards were the fewest since Mia­mi-New Eng­land in 1982 (89). The 10 com­bined com­ple­tions were the fewest since San Fran­cis­co-Chica­go in 2005 (nine). And the 25 com­bined pass attempts were the fewest since that Mia­mi-New Eng­land game (23).

The Dol­phins-Patri­ots match-up is famous­ly known as “The Snow­plow Game” — a 3–0 Patri­ots win on John Smith’s field goal after coach Ron Mey­er motioned to snow­plow oper­a­tor Mark Hen­der­son to clear off the turf for Smith’s kick.

Charg­ers game set. The NFL final­ized its sched­ule of Week 16 games and the Bron­cos will play at the Los Ange­les Charg­ers on Sun­day, Dec. 27 at 2:05 p.m. Den­ver time. The date/start time was pre­vi­ous­ly list­ed as to be determined.

The triple­head­er on Dec. 26 is Tam­pa Bay-Detroit, San Fran­cis­co-Ari­zona and Mia­mi-Las Vegas.

Foot­notes. The Bron­cos fell from 22nd in yards (346.5) to 28th (325.2) in the league after gain­ing only 112 yards against the Saints. … Kansas City opened as a 13-point favorite over the Bron­cos and that would be the biggest spread for the Chiefs in the series in at least 30 years. … All Bron­cos coach­es and exec­u­tives worked from their homes Mon­day and will do so Tues­day after the league ordered all facil­i­ties closed for two days.  … Fan­gio wouldn’t com­mit to start­ing Eli­jah Wilkin­son at right tack­le after he replaced Demar Dot­son for the sec­ond half against the Saints. “It was a heavy run game for us with the lim­i­ta­tions we have and Eli­jah is a lit­tle bet­ter run block­er and we want­ed to give Eli­jah some action,” he said.