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Peyton Manning gives rookie class some advice about preparation

Peyton Manning made a surprise appearance on the Broncos’ rookie zoom meeting on Thursday, and you could probably guess what his overall message was to the new class.

Be prepared.

“You’ve got to work even harder than that now. I see too many players stop doing that because they think they’ve really done something because they got to this point,” he says in a video clip on Broncos TV.

And rookie center, Lloyd Cushenberry III, the former LSU Tiger who grew up watching Manning, took some good notes from the interaction.

“It was crazy.