Broncos fullback Chris Gronkowski at the podium at Dove Valley
This note from Wednesday wound up on the cutting room floor:
Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said Wednesday he was impressed with the young stable of running backs he inherited. What Kubiak doesn’t have is a fullback. He wants one, but the Broncos haven’t had a true fullback since Chris Gronkowski in 2012 – and he had zero carries and just one reception that year.
Before Gronkowski, the Broncos’ fullback was Spencer Larsen, who also played some middle linebacker.
“That’s a topic,” Kubiak said. “I’ve had one on my team all the time. It’s something we’ve discussed, we’re going to have to find. Or we’ll have to build through our football team. I’ve done that with backs, I’ve done that with smaller tight ends. That’s why we’re here (at the NFL scouting combine), hopefully we can sniff a couple out here. But, yeah, that’s a challenge for us right now, we’d like to have one on our team.”
