Matt Ryan labeled him a “jack-of-all-trades,” maybe because no single title seemed fitting. At Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, he’s labeled simply “Captain” with the 140th Public Affairs Wing of the Colorado Air National Guard.
About four hours west, in his hometown of Grand Junction, he’s known to a close few as “Benjie,” and about 250 miles east of that, where his name is etched among the Broncos’ Walter Payton man of the year winners, he is known by John Elway as “the kind of guy that you’d like to have your daughter marry.