rest - https://www.9news.com/article/sports...6-a2a098ed2cb7ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Yeah, sure, Patrick Mahomes II and the Chiefs are coming to town, but where has the action been this week?
In the parking lot at Dove Valley.
The NFL instituted new intensive COVID-19 protocols for the Broncos this week in light of running backs coach Curtis Modkins testing positive for the coronavirus early Saturday morning. At the core of the new protocols is enhanced social distancing.
For players, there is no more eating together in the team cafeteria. The tables and chairs at Broncos Café – which serves the best food anywhere, by the way – are all removed. Players grab their breakfast or lunch and either eat in their cars in the players’ parking lot, or sit at one of the dozen small tables set up outside overlooking the practice field.
Thursday’s cold, drizzly weather was an eat-in-the-car-with-the-heater-blasting kind of day.
Other changes to the Broncos’ routine brought on by the intensive protocols: