Fourteen players caught a pass for the Denver Broncos during the 2010 season.
Half of those players once were, or went on to be, members of the New England Patriots.
That group of familiar names included Brandon Lloyd, Jabar Gaffney, Daniel Graham, Dan Gronkowski, Spencer Larsen and Laurence Maroney. It also included a wide receiver out of Minnesota named Eric Decker, who’d undergone surgery on a Lisfranc sprain to end his senior year with the Golden Gophers after earning first-team All-Big Ten honors as a junior.
Decker was selected in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft by Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels’ war room, 65 spots after Denver traded up with New England to take fellow wideout Demaryius Thomas in the first round out of Georgia Tech.