{"id":75166,"date":"2025-08-17T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75166\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:00:07","slug":"broncos-rested-starters-in-preseason-game-but-tight-end-evan-engram-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75166\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos rested starters in preseason game, but tight end Evan Engram played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broncos coach Sean Payton and Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon agreed before Saturday\u2019s game that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/broncos-cardinals-will-not-play-starters-saturday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">they wouldn\u2019t play their starters<\/a>. But Broncos tight end Evan Engram was an exception.<\/p>\n<p>Payton said before the game that he might put in a few No. 1s for about eight plays, but of all the Broncos who got on the field, the only one who\u2019s listed as a starter on the team\u2019s depth chart was tight end Evan Engram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to get Engram some touches,\u201d Payton said after the game. \u201cAnd also, that was a position group with a few nicks, where pretty soon if you don\u2019t even play those guys you\u2019re going to be asking two guys to play a lot of snaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Engram caught a 58-yard pass from backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham on the Broncos\u2019 second offensive play for his only target of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos coach Sean Payton and Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon agreed before Saturday\u2019s game that they wouldn\u2019t play their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-75166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}