INDIANAPOLIS — In the seconds before Indianapolis kicker Spencer Shrader attempted a last-ditch, 60-yard field goal Sunday night, the Broncos’ most interior defenders switched positions.
OLB Dondrea Tillman flipped DL Eyioma Uwazurike from the defense’s left to right of Colts long snapper Luke Rhodes and wedged himself in on the left.
By now, what happened next is already in the pantheon of brutal recent-memory Denver losses.
Shrader, attempting a kick 12 yards longer than any of his previous NFL attempts, came up well short. Broncos win. Except Tillman was called for a 15-yard “leverage” personal foul because he put his left hand on Indianapolis’ right guard while leaping over the top of him and the long snapper in an attempt to block the kick.