Sacco Sez: Playing to stats, not size

Jim Saccomano explains how one of the Broncos' new college free agents can learn from an old NFL legend.

When I joined the Denver Broncos in 1978, the Director of Player Relations for the National Football League was Buddy Young.One would see him occasionally at an NFL function, and he always had a smile on his face to match his upbeat personality.

I have been thinking about Buddy Young quite a bit lately, especially since the Broncos signed running back Phillip Lindsay of the University of Colorado as a college free agent.

A lot of teams were interested in signing Lindsay, but none of them did, and the likely reason is his height, not his productivity.

In his four years at Colorado, Lindsay…