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Next-Day Notebook: Adam Gotsis, D-line step up after injuries

DENVER -- The Broncos' defensive line didn't want its depth to be tested like this.

Not with the loss of one rotational contributor, Billy Winn, for the season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Not with the absence of two starters, ends Derek Wolfe and Jared Crick, for over two weeks because of injuries suffered in training-camp practices held after the preseason opener at Chicago. And not with a knee bruise incurred by free-agent pickup Zach Kerr that could keep him out for the regular-season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers.