Count Joe Flacco among those impressed by Broncos quarterback Drew Lock‘s debut.
“I think he handled himself really well,” Flacco told The Denver Post on Wednesday. “He just went out there and played football, the moment wasn’t too big for him, and it didn’t seem like the game was too fast for him. He was making his reads and had a nice pace to (his play).”
Flacco, the Broncos’ starting quarterback coming into the season, was placed on injured reserve on Nov. 1 with a herniated disc in his neck.
That paved the way for Lock to make his first NFL start one month later in a win against the Chargers, after the rookie quarterback worked his way back from his own injured reserve stint for a thumb injury and waited for Brandon Allen to make three November starts.