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... The goal-line stop by Simmons was just one of a slew of outstanding plays for Broncos safeties. Will Parks forced one incompletion with a blitz, and caused another on an attempt to Tim Patrick by timing his contact well, arriving just after the football to avoid a pass-interference call. Su’a Cravens also broke up a pass.
... Errant shotgun snaps remained an issue Friday. At one point, a single period of practice saw two low snaps from Connor McGovern to Flacco. Drew Lock also had to field an errant snap, but he recovered for a completion.
"We have to keep practicing because we can have nine other offensive players on offense having the best down of their life [but] we can’t get the snap, it’s wasted. That’s both the snap and the quarterback," Fangio said. "Sometimes it’s the quarterback too.
"I thought it was a little better today in comparison to yesterday where we had kind of an epidemic of them yesterday. Today we kind of had a few of them. We can’t have any."
... With Ja'Wuan James nursing a lower leg bruise and Ron Leary getting a rest day, Elijah Wilkinson and Jake Brendel worked with the No. 1 offense at right tackle and right guard, respectively. Leary is expected to return to practice Saturday.
... Rookie tight ends Noah Fant and Austin Fort each caught touchdown passes during a seven-on-seven red-zone period. Fant caught his pass from Flacco, scoring on an 8-yard pass, while Fort took advantage of blown coverage for a wide-open 7-yard scoring catch. Fort had a chance for another touchdown one play later, but dropped the pass.
... Wide receiver Courtland Sutton had his longest reception of camp to date during a team period in which the No. 1 offense worked against the second-team defense, laying out for a 50-yard reception down the right seam.
... During that same period, the No. 1 offense faced the second-team offense, led by Lock, and finished with two plays that would have been sacks under game conditions, one by Von Miller and the other by Shelby Harris, who put his hands up and held up to avoid certain contact with Lock.
... Aside from the snapping issues and a pair of false-start penalties, the offense appeared to enjoy another strong day. It was particularly crisp in the ground game, with the first-team line doing a good job driving forward to create more space for the running backs to operate, leading to some solid runs throughout the day.
“I thought it was a little better operation than it has been and that’s good to see," Fangio said of the offense. "Hopefully when I go back and look at it it’s good play by them and not crappy play by the defense. Hopefully it’s good play by both sides and they’re winning. Don’t know the answer to that yet."
... Punting, punt coverage and punt returns were points of emphasis Friday during the special-teams periods. Colby Wadman and Justin Vogel opened by working on precision punting.
Later, they punted from their own territory during a punt-return drill. Wadman had seven punts; Vogel had six. Wadman had the better gross average (49.4 yards) and hang time (4.42 seconds) than Vogel (37.2-yard average, hang time of 4.31 seconds), as Vogel was hurt by a pair of mishit punts that sailed out of bounds.
During the punt-return period, eight different Broncos lined up to field punts: McKnight, Trinity Benson, Phillip Lindsay, Horace Richardson, Juan Winfree, Brendan Langley, Devontae Jackson and Nick Williams, who signed with the team Friday.