Tim Patrick

On the inaugural day of padded training camp practice, disaster struck the Denver Broncos offense as wide receiver Tim Patrick was carted off the field with ...

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On Day 6 of Denver Broncos Training Camp, wide receiver Tim Patrick exited practice with a lower leg injury.

“We don’t want just one guy to do one thing, we don’t want a one motion guy, we don’t want one outside guy. Washington celebrated in the endzone with a standing backflip. Whether it’s in the slot, whether it’s in the super tight, whether it’s out wide, whether it’s off play-action, whether it’s deep down the field. We want to be able to try to put them in as many different spots as possible and just kind of build all of their route trees. “Whenever you have these things happen, it’s about supporting the man because we are about the entire team,” Hackett said following Tuesday’s practice. “Again, it’s because we want them to be multiple,” Hackett said during the first week of training camp.

Tim Patrick made an acrobatic catch and came down with an injury on Tuesday. According to multiple reports, the Broncos wideout was carted off the practice ...

The Utah product has earned 50-plus catches, 700-plus receiving yards and five-plus TDs in each of the last two seasons. Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett told reporters Tuesday that Patrick is undergoing an MRI. Teammates surrounded the receiver as he was helped to the cart.

Tim Patrick's season-ending injury transforms the Broncos' receiving corps from a strength to a potential area of concern for Denver.

“I don’t think anybody knew for sure where he was going to put himself in the wide receiver rotation and he’s a guy that for sure Russell has latched on to and really tried to push with the rookies being around,” Hackett said. It’s the worst part of this game is when things like that happen, but it also has to bring your team together. Rookie Montrell Washington was drafted in the fifth round to be a difference-making return man but has turned heads, including with several plays on Tuesday. Sutton compiled 1,112 receiving yards as a second-year player in 2019 but then dealt with the injury in 2020 and finished with 776 and a pair of touchdowns last fall. Receiver KJ Hamler, who was activated off the physically unable to perform list one day earlier after knee and hip surgery last year, said he “caught a flashback” to his own injury when Patrick went down. The guy does everything he needs to do to make sure he’s prepared for practice, prepared for games.

Denver Broncos wide receiver Tim Patrick suffered a torn ACL on Tuesday and is out for the season, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport and NFL Network's James ...

Instead, he'll spend 2022 recovering and rehabilitating his knee with a focus on 2023. Patrick was poised to build upon what had already become an unexpected success story for the receiver who entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent and made his way to Denver via the Broncos' practice squad in 2017. The Broncos receiver suffered a torn ACL in Tuesday's practice and will miss the 2022 season, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport and NFL Network's James Palmer reported.