ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- By the time the last play of the dismal 2018 season had been run by the Denver Broncos, they had lost 10 games and chewed up and spit out the fourth starting quarterback in a two-year span, Case Keenum.
The Broncos' 21 losses in two seasons put them in a place they had not been in decades, and they were no closer to finding a replacement for Peyton Manning than they were the day after he retired in March 2016.
None of the five quarterbacks the Broncos had drafted in general manager John Elway's tenure, led by Paxton Lynch in the first round of 2016, were on the roster and Keenum wasn't up to the task.