Player attendance

Did not prac­tice: TE Troy Fuma­gal­li (ill­ness, first missed prac­tice), WR KJ Ham­ler (ham­string, sev­enth), WR Juwann Win­free (groin, eighth), CB Michael Oje­mu­dia (quad, fifth), ILB Justin Str­nad (wrist, fourth), S Ali­jah Hold­er (soft tis­sue, fourth), ILB Todd Davis (calf, sixth) and TE Austin Fort (knee, 12th).

Of Fuma­gal­li, coach Vic Fan­gio said: “Just a med­ical issue — it’s not at this point very seri­ous. We think he’ll be back by next week. We’ll find out more on Monday.”

New injuries

RG Gra­ham Glas­gow (ankle) was injured on a run­ning play dur­ing the first-team offense’s fourth play of prac­tice. Coach Vic Fan­gio said Glas­gow “tweaked” his ankle, but didn’t have an update.

OLB Bradley Chubb (left knee) left prac­tice ear­ly. After hav­ing ice applied, he ed from the sideline.

Top play

QB Drew Lock showed good pock­et patience (and received good pro­tec­tion) to allow WR Court­land Sut­ton over the mid­dle to get unmugged by ILB Josey Jew­ell to make a snatched-out-of-the-air catch.

Thumbs up

*Sec­ondary ball skills. The defense got inter­cep­tions from S P.J. Locke, S Justin Sim­mons, S Trey Mar­shall and CB Davon­tae Harris.

*K Bran­don McManus. He drilled a 60-yard field goal with a few yards to spare.

*Pumped-in crowd noise. After a few min­utes, it was hard­ly notice­able. “I thought the envi­ron­ment was fine,” coach Vic Fan­gio said. “That was real­is­tic crowd noise and that’s what it could be for our home games until we have fans and road games that don’t have fans.”

Thumbs down

*First-team offense. Young offens­es are going to have bad prac­tices and Sat­ur­day was it for the Bron­cos. Turnovers. Drops. Allowed pres­sures. A com­plete breakdown.

*OLB Bradley Chubb. If fans were allowed in the sta­di­um for prac­tice, their eyes would have been jarred by see­ing Chubb eval­u­at­ed by trainers.

Odds and ends

• The Bron­cos ran 68 plays of 11-of-11.
• After prac­tice, Den­ver May­or Michael Han­cock spoke to the play­ers at mid­field. His mes­sage? “(Han­cock) thanked (the play­ers) for their work in the com­mu­ni­ty and thanked them for the work they’re going to do in the com­mu­ni­ty in the future and lent his sup­port to help,” coach Vic Fan­gio said. “He had been want­i­ng to do it so the tim­ing is right and we’ll have more of that (from oth­er speakers).”
• Fan­gio said it’s pos­si­ble the Bron­cos prac­tice at the sta­di­um one more time before fac­ing Ten­nessee on Sept. 14.
• Of being in the sta­di­um, Fan­gio said: “I think just being in a big-league sta­di­um brings a lit­tle oomph to the par­ty. I felt that ear­ly on and you could tell it was more game-like than practice-like.”
• OLB Von Miller on not hav­ing fans in the sta­di­um: “It’s def­i­nite­ly dif­fer­ent and def­i­nite­ly not the same as hav­ing all of Bron­cos Coun­try in there. But when you start run­ning around and add the crowd noise (pumped in), you don’t real­ly pay atten­tion to it.”
• First peri­od of 11-on-11: C Lloyd Cushen­ber­ry worked with the first team again Sat­ur­day and after RG Gra­ham Glas­gow was injured, Austin Schlottmann replaced him. Lock’s first dri­ve end­ed with a drop by WR Dae­Sean Hamil­ton. … QB Jeff Driskel’s sec­ond pass was inter­cept­ed by S P.J. Locke after going through the hands of WR Tyrie Cleve­land. On the next play, Driskel missed open RB LeV­ante Bel­lamy, who got sev­er­al steps on ILB Josh Wat­son. … Lock’s sec­ond dri­ve start­ed with a com­ple­tion to WR Court­land Sut­ton, but was derailed by a CB Davon­tae Har­ris inter­cep­tion when Lock and Sut­ton weren’t on the same page. … Driskel’s sec­ond series includ­ed a leap­ing catch by WR Jer­ry Jeudy in between defend­ers (36-yard gain) and a touch­down catch by TE Albert Okwuegbunam.
• Sec­ond peri­od of 11-on-11: In the red zone, Lock’s pass was slight­ly behind TE Nick Van­nett at the goal-line and it fell incom­plete after Van­nett jug­gled it. … QB Brett Ryp­i­en got his first-team reps and tried to find WR Dion­tae Spencer in the end zone but CB Essang Bassey broke it up. … In a two-minute sit­u­a­tion, Lock was inter­cept­ed by S Justin Sim­mons (FB Andrew Beck was the tar­get), but then threw a nice pass to Jeudy. CB A.J. Bouye broke a pass at the goal-line intend­ed for Cleve­land. … Driskel’s two-minute drill was ini­tial­ly sharp (four con­sec­u­tive com­ple­tions), but the dri­ve end­ed with S Trey Marshall’s interception.
• Third peri­od of 11-on-11: Miller went right around Fant to “sack” Lock on the first play of the sec­ond half. Two plays lat­er, Lock threw a dart down the mid­dle to Sut­ton. … Driskel’s first play — com­ple­tion to Free­man — would have been a sack by DE DeMar­cus Walk­er in a game. … Lock had two pos­ses­sions from the opponent’s 12-yard line and went three-and-out both times. On the first, DE Shel­by Har­ris bat­ted down a pass on third down. … Driskel’s pos­ses­sion from the 12 end­ed with a touch­down pass to Okwuegbunam.
• Fourth peri­od of 11-on-11. Lock ran an end-of-game hur­ry-up drill, but had pass­es bro­ken up by Davon­tae Har­ris and bat­ted down by Sim­mons before K Bran­don McManus hit a 60-yard field goal. … Prac­tice end­ed with Ryp­i­en com­plet­ing a pass to WR Trin­i­ty Benson.
• The Bron­cos didn’t have live con­tact dur­ing the sta­di­um prac­tice. Pre-prac­tice, they went through their rou­tine of stretch­ing, return­ing to the lock­er room and then tak­ing the field for a kickoff.
• The Bron­cos con­tin­ue to be cau­tious with RB Melvin Gor­don (rib), who did indi­vid­ual drills but did not par­tic­i­pate in team work. “We think he’ll be back soon­er rather than lat­er and we’re hop­ing for that,” Fan­gio said. “We need him.”

Sunday’s schedule

No prac­tice.