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What drives the Broncos' T.J. Ward

Entering his second year with the Broncos, safety T.J. Ward is more comfortable with his Mile High surroundings and looking forward to doing more of what he likes to do on defense - running and hitting.

The fact that Thursday would have been the 28th birthday of Terrance Kelly - a standout footballer at De La Salle High School in Richmond, Calif., who was gunned down 11 years ago, a day before he would have begun his freshman year at Oregon - is inconsequential to most outside Kelly's East Bay school and community.

But it is among the things that define Broncos safety T.