ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Domata Peko has played in 187 games in an NFL career that is now in its 13th season.
And he has often said, with a laugh, that he doesn't learn a rookie's name "until they make the team. I appreciate them and how hard they work, but until they make the team I just call them by their number or something."
Two weeks into the Denver Broncos' season, Peko knows a lot of rookie names -- and nicknames -- and some "thank yous" are in order.
"I mean, we have Rolls Royce [Royce Freeman] and the pit bull, number 30, Phillip Lindsay," Peko said.