Former Broncos WR Tim Patrick on return to Denver: ‘I can’t (expletive) wait’

Tim Patrick #12 of the Denver Broncos celebrates a touchdown in the second quarter during the preseason game against the Green Bay Packers at Empower Field At Mile High on Aug. 18, 2024 in Denver. (Photo by Tyler Schank/Getty Images)On Monday, Sean Payton sat through a reel of the Jaguars’ touchdown plays and worried about the one who’d gotten away.

Receiver Tim Patrick was beloved enough once, in Denver, to earn himself a three-year extension alongside Courtland Sutton in the middle of the 2021 season. But a promising career in burnt orange was sidetracked with a torn ACL in 2022 and a torn Achilles in 2023’s minicamp that Payton said “devastated” the building, and the Broncos cut bait…