With the loss of their leading tackler and most athletic inside linebacker, Danny Trevathan, the Denver Broncos have a gaping hole at the inside linebacker position opposite Brandon Marshall.
Denver had options to draft a player at the position a few months back and chose not to. That left Todd Davis, Corey Nelson, and undrafted second-year player Zaire Anderson to compete for the open spot.
Davis received the most playing time last season (Nelson also was asked to contribute a good amount) and in the offseason has received much praise from his coaching staff. As Wade Phillips told our Ryan Koenigsberg, Davis “played in all of our short-yardage and goal-line plays and all that.