ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Nine young players walked onto the turf field inside the Pat Bowlen Fieldhouse late Tuesday morning. They stretched. They chatted with Broncos coaches and personnel officials, who gradually filed into the building. They stretched out.
It looked like just another day in the sport. But for each of G/C Ben Clarke, safety Troy Donahue, WRs Joe Hansley and Max McCaffrey, RB Cameron McDondle, TE Michael Miller, DE Taylor Sheridan, CB John Tidwell and DE/OLB Eddie Yarbrough, this was something far greater: it was one of the biggest days of not only a football life .