The have finally gotten the proverbial monkey off their backs beating the for the first time since Week 2 of the 2015 season and no player on the current roster suffered the most against that franchise than safety Justin Simmons. So it is fitting that he’d also earn AFC Defensive Player of the Week honors for this game.
Drafted in the third-round of the 2016 NFL Draft, he was part of all but one of those 16-straight losses to the Chiefs. On Sunday, he recorded two tackles, a pass defensed, a fumble recovery, and that game-clinching interception to send Denver a mile high.