Former first-round Broncos QB suffers devastating injury in Arena League comeback
A former Denver Broncos QB who was a first-round pick suffered a terrible injury in the Arena League.
Hey, remember Paxton Lynch? If you're a Denver Broncos fan, you do for sure. The quarterback who turned heads at Memphis ended up as a first-round pick of the Broncos in 2016, but he lasted just two seasons in the NFL and had just four touchdowns and four interceptions in four starts.
Since then, he was released by the Broncos in 2018 and became a journeyman with stops with the Seattle Seahawks, the Pittsburgh Steelers and then a CFL stint with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. After that? The list gets longer: The USFL (Michigan Panthers), the XFL (Orlando Guardians and San Antonio Brahmas) and finally a National Arena League signing with the Colorado Spartans.
And news broke that in his third game -- he was making $600 a game, by the way -- he got hit and suffered a torn LCL in his knee. The comeback he was trying was over. The Denver Post has a great feature on Lynch, with this quote in it about the comeback effort: “I was like, ‘OK, if I play this year in arena football,'” Lynch said, “‘I’m going to play as Paxton Lynch .
I’m going to have full confidence in myself. I don’t really care. ’ And that’s what I did.