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Broncos Mailbag: Why isn’t George Paton spending more of the $28 million in available cap space?

Denver Post Broncos writer Ryan O’Halloran posts his Broncos Mailbag periodically during the season. Submit questions to Ryan here.

Do you think back-to-back defensive-oriented coaching staffs are to blame for Denver’s inability to develop young quarterbacks? Under Gary Kubiak, Trevor Siemian showed promise as someone who could at least keep the team competitive while first-rounder Paxton Lynch developed. The next season, under Vance Joseph, they both regressed and were off the roster a year later as the team went with journeyman Case Keenum. Now, under Vic Fangio, we’ve seen him give up on second-rounder Drew Lock after only 18 very disjointed starts in favor of another journeyman in Teddy Bridgewater.