Last season, Kendall Hinton was widely talked about after the wide receiver started as an emergency quarterback last season against the Saints after Drew Lock, Rypien and Blake Bortles sat out under COVID-19 protocols.
Denver desperately wanted that game to be postponed, but they were denied. Ultimately, the league made a somewhat-controversial decision to have the game played as scheduled.
We now know why.
A Los Angeles Times deep-dive into the league’s handling of COVID-19 revealed the Denver Broncos quarterbacks tried to dupe the system and it led to the situation.
“John Elway, Denver’s president of football operations, made several frustrated pleas to Goodell to postpone the Sunday game until Tuesday, when the quarterbacks would be available,” Sam Farmer reports. “The league denied those requests because surveillance video from Denver’s facility showed the quarterbacks had tried to fool the system.
“They had removed their contact-tracing devices and put them in the four corners of the meeting room, then they sat together to watch film. That close contact automatically made them ineligible to play.”
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In that game against the Saints, the former Wake Forest quarterback who converted to wide receiver his senior year went just 1-for-9 for 13 yards with a sack, two interceptions and a passer rating of zero.
