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Jeff LegwoldESPN Senior Writer
- Covered Broncos for 9 years for Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News
- Previously covered Steelers, Bills and Titans
- Member of Pro Football Hall of Fame Board
of Selectors since 1999
Russell Wilson tried to bash everything helium could to play aft a hamstring injury, but Broncos manager Nathaniel Hackett connected Saturday ruled retired the nine-time Pro Bowl backmost vs. the New York Jets connected Sunday.
Hackett's determination was made to let Wilson clip to heal and forestall a lingering injury, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Backup backmost Brett Rypien, who has taken a important fig of snaps with the starting discourtesy passim the week, volition start.
Denver volition reevaluate Wilson's wounded this week and find whether helium tin play Oct. 30 successful London against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The 26-year-old Rypien has spent the erstwhile 3 seasons connected either the Broncos' roster oregon signifier squad earlier helium won the backup occupation successful this year's grooming camp.
His lone erstwhile commencement successful the NFL was against the Jets successful 2020, a 37-28 Broncos triumph successful which Rypien threw for 242 yards and 2 touchdowns with 3 interceptions.
Wilson has said helium suffered the wounded successful the 4th fourth of Monday night's nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Chargers. Wilson received a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam Tuesday greeting and has since been officially listed arsenic a constricted subordinate successful each of the past 3 days of practice.
Wilson has already been receiving attraction for a partial musculus teardrop adjacent his close enarthrosis since the team's Oct. 2 nonaccomplishment successful Las Vegas. The Broncos permission Monday for London to hole for the crippled against the Jaguars earlier a Week 9 bye.
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