ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- There are times when Denver Broncos safety Justin Simmons becomes the unofficial spokesman for the team's ongoing playoff drought, now in its seventh year.
Simmons is, after all, the only player from the Broncos’ 2016 draft class who remains on the roster, the ill-fated draft class headed by quarterback Paxton Lynch, who made all of four career starts in his short tenure and the first draft class that arrived in the afterglow of the team’s last playoff game -- their Super Bowl 50 win to close out the 2015 season.