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Offseason work already paying off for Broncos center Lloyd Cushenberry

SEATTLE — The Broncos have followed through on their initial training camp plan to divide the quarterback snaps between Drew Lock and Teddy Bridgewater and right tackle plays between Bobby Massie and Calvin Anderson.

But the center competition that was swung open following the addition of third-round pick Quinn Meinerz didn’t just fizzle, it never got started. It has been Lloyd Cushenberry all the way.

Count Cushenberry among the surprised.

“I was expecting us to kind of share,” he said.

But in a nod to his offseason combined with Meinerz’s occasionally rocky transition to a new position at a new level of football, Cushenberry gripped the starting spot and hasn’t let go.