The Broncos knew what they were encountering with when facing the Los Angeles Chargers’ Philip Rivers and Pittsburgh Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger the last two weeks.
Rivers and Roethlisberger have a combined 435 starts and 762 touchdown passes in the regular season and playoffs combined.
Sunday at Cincinnati will be the near-literal opposite situation.
The Bengals lost Andy Dalton to a thumb injury in last week’s loss to Cleveland. Jeff Driskel will make his first NFL start. He has 36 career passing attempts (all this year) and was 17 of 29 for 155 yards and one touchdown against the Browns.