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‘The Legend of Courtland Sutton’ is quickly growing at Broncos Headquarters

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Second-year wide receiver Tim Patrick laughed, smiled and looked up at the blue sky before looking back down and delivering the story.

“I don’t know if you know this, but in his first practice, he jumped over somebody,” Patrick told BSN Denver in a voice fit for a fireside fable. “He literally jumped over somebody.”

“Since that day,” he added, holding the proverbial flashlight right underneath his chin, “everybody knew.”

They knew.

They knew that Courtland Sutton, the high-character rookie out of Southern Methodist, was a force to be reckoned with between the lines.

“He’s a beast,” said defensive coordinator Joe Woods.

“He’s a beast,” echoed fellow receiver, Mark Chapman.

“He’s a beast,” Patrick confirmed. “He’s a real beast.”

“Man, the kid is special,” said running back De’Angelo Henderson. “We knew that in OTAs when he came in, and he was catching everything. One-handed catches, all of it. We saw his gifts from day one. When he came back to camp and was still doing the same things, I was like, “He’s going to be a special player here—for a long time.”

“He’s done a bunch of the DBs dirty,” Henderson said with a laugh. “I’m not going to name names.”

“He’s snagging on guys every day,” added Bradley Roby.

“Having played safety, I understand defenses, I understand the schemes, I understand where people need to get to get into certain zones. Knowing that, whenever I’m sitting at my position, I can read a lot of stuff that’s going on on the field,” Sutton explained. “Defenses at the NFL level are really good at disguising things, and I can’t wait to be able to start breaking that film down so that whenever I get on the field, I’m able to see things move and see how they try to hide it… I think it’s really huge to be able to understand how defenses move and where everybody needs to get to, because if you know where everybody needs to get to, then you know where the holes are going to be.”

In the words of Tim Patrick, “That guy is the steal of the draft right now, man… Everybody knows, when the ball is in the air, and you’re covering Courtland Sutton, he’s most likely gonna get it.”

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