When the Denver Broncos first drafted Paxton Lynch in the first-round of the 2016 NFL Draft most “experts” warned us all that he would be a 2-3 year project. That timeline was likely under the best of circumstances.
What Lynch got was the worst of circumstances. He entered a locker room that had a massive void that used to be filled by one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time in Peyton Manning and found himself outsmarted and out quarterbacked by a seventh-round nobody named Trevor Siemian.
The blow to his confidence likely intensified when he lost another offseason battle with Siemian last year and had to watch from the sideline as the team imploded en route to a 5-11 season.