Denver Broncos, tailback Phillip Lindsay decide to part ways

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Running back Phillip Lindsay and the Denver Broncos have "mutually agreed'' to go their separate ways.

Just hours after the Broncos signed running back Mike Boone in free agency, Lindsay's representatives and the Broncos agreed the best course was for the Broncos to rescind the restricted free-agent tender and for Lindsay to become a free agent. The Broncos had tendered Lindsay, who was named to the Pro Bowl after his rookie season in 2018, at the lowest level -- the right of first refusal -- just before the start of free agency.

Much like last season, when the Broncos signed Melvin Gordon to a two-year, $16 million deal and did not sign Lindsay to a new deal after then…