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Menelik Watson's bid for a healthy season ends as calf injury sends him to Broncos IR

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Add it to the list of things that haven't gone the way the Broncos had hoped, but right tackle Menelik Watson's attempt to have "a good, healthy season'' ended Wednesday when Denver moved him to injured reserve with a calf injury.

Watson, who had never played more than 12 games in any of his previous four seasons in the league because of a variety of injuries, had consistently expressed the hope his work with the Broncos training staff would improve his odds.

But Watson originally suffered his injury in the Broncos' Oct.