For more than three months, De’Angelo Henderson could do nothing but wait and wonder.
The rookie running back for the Broncos, a sixth-round pick out of Coastal Carolina, had turned a strong training camp into an opportunity to join the team’s active roster for the first three games of the 2017 season while Devontae Booker rehabbed from a wrist injury.
But week after week following Booker’s return Oct. 1, Henderson was found without a uniform on game day, residing outside a rotation that featured veterans C.J. Anderson and Jamaal Charles and the second-year back Booker.