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Jackhammers and buzz saws nearly drowned out the coaches hollering during OTAs this week at Denver Broncos headquarters Tremaine Edmunds Jersey , which is undergoing a makeover this spring.
Upgrades include a massive new theater for team meetings and an expansion of the training room.
Another thing the Broncos are remodeling is their backfield.
It's hardly recognizable following the departures of veterans C.J. Anderson and Jamaal Charles along with longtime position coach Eric Studesville, one of six assistants fired after last season.
Curtis Modkins, who tutored 1,000-yard rusher Jordan Howard in Chicago last season, replaced Studesville, Miami's new run game coordinator who served four head coaches in his eight years in Denver.
Charles wasn't re-signed after one season in Denver, and the Broncos released sixth-year pro Anderson , their leading rusher, to save $9 million. He signed with the Carolina Panthers.
That leaves not a single running back in Denver who has ever posted a 100-yard game in the NFL.
It's a backfield bursting with energy, if not enthusiasm.
"We're all young," third-year pro Devontae Booker said. "We can go out there and take it to the house at any time."
Booker didn't start a single game last year, and second-year pro De'Angelo "Hop" Henderson carried seven times as a rookie. But with fullback Andy Janovich known more for busting helmets than tackles, they're the ones getting peppered with questions from a trio of rookies.
"It's crazy," said Booker, who turns 26 Sunday. "I think Hop's the same age as me, but I've been here longer."
The Broncos selected Royce Freeman from Oregon in the second round of the NFL draft and Arkansas' David Williams in the seventh before adding Colorado's Phillip Lindsay Authentic James Daniels Jersey , who went undrafted.
Booker isn't acting like he's suddenly ascended to the top of the depth chart, either.
"We've got four or five backs competing to be the guy, so he's got to come out and work and earn the right to be the guy," coach Vance Joseph said. "Obviously, he understands that with C.J. gone, it's a wide-open race. He's excited about that and he should take a step forward."
No matter who emerges as the Broncos' lead back, there will be plenty of carries to go around.
"Someone's got to be the starter, but I think to have a great running game, you have to have two or three guys," Joseph said. "I think also (important is) having a third-down back, a guy who can be great in protections, catch the ball out of the backfield and beat linebackers one on one."
Booker, for one, wouldn't mind sharing snaps.
"Running back by committee," Booker said. "If it happens like that, I'm all for it."
Here's a look at the running backs jockeying for carries in 2018:
DEVONTAE BOOKER : Coming off an injury-marred season Authentic Deadrin Senat Jersey , he was expecting to share snaps this season 鈥?with Anderson.
"It was crazy, because the first day we got back, that's when everything happened. I had just seen him. We were doing physicals and the next thing I know" he's been released, Booker said. "It was shocking to me, but at the end of the day it's a business. Best of luck to C.J."
DE'ANGELO HENDERSON : The speedster from Coastal Carolina escaped serious injury when a drunken driver totaled his Jeep last week.
"It definitely makes you appreciate everything more," Henderson said. "After I stopped, I was like, I'm lucky. I've got a newborn son, I got a fiancee. I've got a family that really cares about me and teammates that are counting on me this year."
ROYCE FREEMAN : Freeman's high football odometer 鈥?947 rushes, 79 catches in college 鈥?didn't scare off the Broncos: "What it shows to us is he's durable," general manager John Elway said.
Freeman agrees his college workload shouldn't be a concern.
"It is not often you get backs playing as many games or taking as many carries," Freeman said. "I feel like the fact that I was able to do so proves I am a durable running back."
DAVID WILLIAMS : He's embracing the crowded running back room, saying he enjoys competing for carries.
"It's actually a great situation," Williams said. "If it was me in college, I would go to this school, if this was a school Steelers Game Jerseys , because the situation is good. I'm just blessed to be able to have the opportunity to be in this situation."
PHILLIP LINDSAY : In all but one of the last 14 seasons, an undrafted college free agent has made the Broncos' 53-man roster, and this Denver native is a good bet to continue that trend.
He's out to wow the coaching staff as a rusher, receiver and returner.
"I'm just going to showcase everything," said the former Buffaloes standout known as the "Tasmanian Devil" for his relentless motor.
The creator of the innovative football helmet that performed best in NFL testing the last two years is taking its concussion-reducing technology from the playing field to the battlefield.
VICIS, maker of the Zero1 football helmet, is partnering with the U.S. Army to research ways to reduce head injuries in the military through a development grant announced Tuesday.
The Seattle-based company will replace foam pads in existing Army and Marine Corps combat helmets with liner technology developed for its Zero1 football helmet, said VICIS CEO and co-founder Dave Marver.
”This aligns with our mission and it allows us to protect those who have signed up to protect us,” Marver told The Associated Press. ”The technology remains in development, but it’s very promising and we’re hopeful it will make a big difference in the lives of our servicemen and women.”
Today’s combat helmets are designed primarily for ballistic protection and shielding from gunfire and shrapnel. But a 2013 Congressional Research Service report showed that four out of every five traumatic brain injuries in the military are caused by blunt impact in training and other non-deployed settings.
”The main thing is the current combat helmets are … not optimized for blunt impact protection and that’s what football helmets are designed to do, protect against blunt impact,” Marver said. ”And so what we’re doing rather than working to replace the shell of the combat helmet, which is good at ballistic protection, we’re actually replacing the inner padding, which is currently just foam.”
Marver said medical staff at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle first reached out to him in 2016 after hearing about the work his company was doing with the Seattle Seahawks and asked if VICIS could adapt its technology to improve combat helmets.
”We founded the company to build a better football helmet, but fundamentally our strength as a company is developing these impact-mitigating structures Browns Game Jerseys ,” Marver said. ”And the military initiative kind of came about organically because the Army reached out to us to see if we could take this football helmet technology and improve the combat helmet. So, most startup companies you have to stay focused and get your initial product out, but we felt so strongly about the need to better protect warfighters.”
Marver assembled a team of engineers to work on the military project, and ”I would say it’s going to take a year or two before this would potentially reach warfighters and be deployed.”
Introduced last year, the Zero1 is the first football helmet to account for rotational as well as linear impact. Scientific studies have indicated that rotational impact has more correlation with concussions.
Laboratory testing showed that the VICIS Zero 1 models of 2017 and 2018 rate best for player safety. Last month the NFL for the first time banned a number of helmets that were deemed inferior to many of the 34 helmets the NFL and the players’ union examined.
The Zero1 also ranked first in this year’s Virginia Tech varsity football helmet ratings.
”VICIS has demonstrated great results in their football helmets, and we look forward to continuing those types of results with the unique blunt impact requirements of combat helmets,” said project manager Benjamin Fasel, a mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.
In 2017, 75 players on 18 NFL teams used the helmet. About 200 players representing all 32 NFL teams are expected to use the lighter Zero1 this season, as are players from more than 80 colleges and 500 high schools, Marver said.
Several retired military advisers will provide input for VICIS’s combat helmet initiative, including Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Navy Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff and Air Force Gen. Charles Wald, who was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in 1970 but embarked on a 35-year military career instead of playing professional football.
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