ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- It is the nature of things in a football-mad region that lives, breathes and discusses every throw in the Denver Broncos' current quarterback competition. But when Broncos coach Sean Payton, an admitted and devout believer of the Bill Parcells school of tough love, decided to put all the team's rookies at the bottom of their respective positions on the team's first "unofficial" depth chart, it still sent people into -- his words -- "a tizzy."
That's because one of those rookies is quarterback Bo Nix, the No. 12 overall pick in this year's draft.