No time playing without Pat Surtain II is good time for the Broncos.
The prospect of potentially missing a mid-November game at home against Kansas City would be particularly tough.
Overall, though, the fact that Denver has not put the reigning defensive player of the year on injured reserve and at this point does not plan to, a source indicated to The Denver Post, is at least in part because of a timely turn in the schedule.
The Broncos play twice in five days, coming up at Houston and then home against Las Vegas on Thursday Night Football.