Sean Payton’s team will be on break by Thursday night at the latest.
The sun baked the Broncos’ practice fields Tuesday as the team kicked off its mandatory minicamp, with temperatures shooting well into the 80s.
Signs of summer are all around.
Still, Payton felt the need to provide a couple of curt calendar-related reminders during his post-practice news conference after Tuesday’s practice.
Don’t start counting heads in a fierce running back battle, he warned, not before training camp starts. Not even as the team signed veteran J.K. Dobbins, all but ensuring that — assuming good health — at least one and likely multiple of Audric Estime, Blake Watson, Jaleel McLaughlin and Tyler Badie get left off the 53-man roster at the end of August.