Stick here for live updates and analysis as Denver takes on the Packers at Empower Field at Mile High.
Live updates
Pre-game updates
Inactives (12:57 p.m.): Mike McGlinchey is officially active.
Broncos inactives:
- WR Pat Bryant (hamstring)
- QB Sam Ehlinger (PS)
- CB Reese Taylor
- DL Sai’Vion Jones
- DL Jordan Jackson
- OLB Que Robinson
- OL Geron Christian
The Packers will have both of their running backs today. Josh Jacobs and Emanuel Wilson are both active. — Gabriel
Injury update (12:43 p.m.): RT Mike McGlinchey’s going through his run block routine and putting a decent amount of force on Frank Crum has he works.
Certainly looks like he’s going to give it a go. — Gabriel
Pack attack (12:43 p.m.): It is impossible to miss today’s opponent. Every pack of fans outside included Packers backers. Few teams travel lime Green Bay. But the homefield advantage will be real for Denver if it takes lead early. — Renck
McGlinchey update (12:39 p.m.): Broncos RT Mike McGlinchey’s warming up and has his cleats on. He’s got his right shoulder area taped up under his shirt. We’ll see for sure in 15 minutes if he’s active, but looks like he’s going to give it a go. — Gabriel
Injury update (12:34 p.m.): Looking a bit into the future, TE Lucas Krull is walking around with no notable brace or protection on his foot. He was doing conditioning work on the side field during the week. Could be a candidate to get back from IR at some point in the coming weeks. — Gabriel
Reunion (12:21 p.m.): Alex Singleton and Justin Strnad chatting with former Broncos kicker Brandon McManus during early warmups. — Gabriel
Injury update (11:55 a.m.): RT Mike McGlinchey, questionable with a shoulder injury, worked out early here with OL coaches Zach Strief and Chris Morgan watching.
Strief and Morgan now chatting with VP of player health and performance Beau Lowery and GM George Paton. — Gabriel
Goooood morning all (11:47 a.m.): It’s a beautiful Sunday at a soon-to-be rocking Empower Field. One key update early: Broncos right tackle Mike McGlinchey is out doing a workout in sneakers here. He landed on the injury report Friday as questionable with a shoulder injury vs. Green Bay. Status is very important against a fierce Packers pass-rush. — Evans
Scouting report (10:25 a.m.): Check out how the Broncos match up with the Packers in Luca Evans’ scouting report.
Game predictions
Parker Gabriel, Broncos writer: Broncos 21, Packers 20
Really, really considered going with the Vegas line and taking Green Bay. This one could go about 19 different ways. Except then I came across the Post’s preseason week-by-week preview, in which a certain beat reporter wondered if this might feel like a potential Super Bowl preview and also predicted a Brandon McManus miss from 55 yards to seal a Denver win. No way we can backtrack on that one now.
Luca Evans, Broncos writer: Packers 24, Broncos 21
There’s no world in which this game isn’t close, one way or another. It’s a toss-up. But the Packers’ strengths as a team go toe-to-toe with the Broncos’ strengths, and the Packers’ defensive weaknesses — the intermediate passing game — aren’t the Broncos’ strengths. Going with simple logical processes here.
Troy Renck, sports columnist: Broncos 20, Packers 18
The Broncos and Packers are mirror images. The Packers are more explosive offensively, but the Broncos are better defensively. Teams that beat Green Bay drag them into the mud. With Green Bay coming off a euphoric win over the Bears, it is likely they will be flat early, especially if Pat Surtain II blankets Christian Watson, and in trouble late.
Sean Keeler, sports columnist: Broncos 22, Packers 21
Sean Payton is 6-1 with the Broncos against NFC opponents at home, and 6-0 in NFC home games played after Week 4. The only time Jordan Love faced a pass rush comparable to the Broncos’ Mile High Maulers, the Packers QB got sacked five times at Cleveland. Bo Nix wobbles but hangs in there, only to drive the Broncos down the field in the dying seconds for a game-winning, walk-off Wil Lutz field goal.
Broncos-Packers NFL Week 15: Must-reads
Inside Broncos WR Courtland Sutton’s quest for mental mastery: ‘Be where your feet are’
Sutton has played in 110 of a possible 117 games (excluding a torn ACL in 2020) in his years in Denver. He now ranks sixth all-time in Broncos history in receiving yards, while playing for 11 different starting quarterbacks in eight seasons. He’s had five offensive coordinators and five head coaches. And he has never once requested a trade in those eight seasons, sources close to Sutton told The Denver Post.
Sutton’s presence — from Vic Fangio to Sean Payton, from Pat Bowlen to the Penners — sticks in the minds of those who’ve shared a locker with his corner cubby in Denver. Read Luca Evans’ story.
Broncos’ top-ranked third-down defense faces big challenge in prolific Packers
The Broncos defense is among the best in football. Its leader, coordinator Vance Joseph, says Sunday is the group’s biggest challenge to date in 2025.
The Green Bay offense will undoubtedly look different if running back Josh Jacobs doesn’t play — he’s missed the first two days of practice this week with a knee injury — but it’s become one of the NFL’s most dangerous because of its balance. Read Parker Gabriel’s story.
The Mad Fanatic cultivated a following rapping about the Broncos, and built Bronco Gang along the way
Spitting bars about the Broncos brought Andrew Young back from the edge of insanity — and tacked on a worldwide football family in the process.
In 2010, Young had just spent two stints in a psychiatric hospital for what doctors later discovered was cannabis-induced psychosis. When he got out the second time, amid what he describes as “the darkest funk of my life,” the medications he was taking after being initially misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder were only adding to his depression.
But there was one combination that re-centered the longtime singer/songwriter: watching the Broncos and rapping about them. Read Kyle Newman’s story.
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