DENVER — Instant reaction from the Broncos’ 31-28 win over the Los Angeles Chargers in Sunday’s season finale.
Jeudy, Jeudy, Jeudy: Can someone please retrieve Khalil Mack’s cleats from the Empower Field turf? Jerry Jeudy shook the Chargers outside linebacker out of them on a 13-yard reverse run that served as one of many reminders Sunday that the Broncos receiver has turned a corner. Jeudy’s stat line over the last six weeks of the season: 44 receptions, 523 yards and three touchdowns. A player who once appeared to be trending toward first-round bust territory now has to be considered a future building block.
Russ hope meter: If Russell Wilson was looking to build momentum going into the offseason, Sunday looked pretty bleak … until the second-to-last snap of the second quarter. That’s when Russ, rolling to his left, uncorked a 57-yard bomb to Jeudy down the sideline to set up a 3-yard TD pass to Eric Tomlinson. Two more long strikes — 50 yards to Jeudy again in the third quarter, and 52 yards to Freddie Swain in the fourth quarter — showed that maybe Russ still has some of that patented touch left. Which, for now, is enough.
