On the same morning Broncos general manager George Paton made the cold, hard cash decision that outside linebacker Bradley Chubb wasn’t valuable enough to be a core piece of this football team, Chubb pulled on his orange No. 55 jersey one last time and blessed Denver kids with a selfless act of charity.
Want to know one reason why the Broncos are stuck in a losers loop, missing the playoffs year after frustrating year?
It takes more than talent to build a championship team. It takes heart.
As the clock ticked Tuesday toward the NFL trade deadline, Chubb rolled out of bed after a long flight back from London, then traveled crosstown to Clayton Early Learning in the Park Hill neighborhood on his day off to pose for photographs with a young kid from a Head Start program.