Instead of celebrating his game-winning touchdown run in Saturday's 19-12 Broncos preseason win over the San Francisco 49ers, running back Juwan Thompson sat at his locker after the game kicking himself for a first-quarter special-teams blunder.
Thompson is usually tough on himself, but Saturday was different. He wanted that day to be perfect because of what it meant.
His grandmother, Hattie Marie Simon Griggie, would have turned 63 on Saturday if she had not lost her valiant fight with cancer two years prior. Thompson said he played the game in her memory.
"It was definitely on my mind," Thompson said.