The Denver Broncos activated two players from the injured reserve (Randy Gregory and Billy Turner), but placed one of the IR this past week (Dre’Mont Jones) and still have a league-leading total of 17 players on the IR currently.
The data in the graphic below was compiled during the middle of last week. From 2012-2017 the Broncos were one of the healthier teams in terms of players on the IR at the end of the regular season. However, if you so by the red column (2018-present) the Broncos go to second worst.
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All of the data that I am going to discuss is from Spotrac.