ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- There are only four common threads from the Broncos' locker room that link the careers of Simon Fletcher, Jason Elam and John Lynch.
Rod Smith, Tom Nalen, Dwayne Carswell and Keith Burns are the only four men who were teammates of each member of the 2016 class of the Denver Broncos Ring of Fame.
"All three of these guys, I played with them, learned something from each of them and know the professionalism and how much they loved and endeared the Broncos," Smith said.
Smith knew Elam and Fletcher first. Elam arrived a year before Smith, as a third-round pick in 1993.