ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Pro Football Writer
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Trevor Siemian has won the starting quarterback job for the Denver Broncos. That’s according to head coach Vance Joseph, who made the announcement today following a five-month audition that represented the team’s biggest position battle in the NFL season. Siemian beat out Paxton Lynch for the job calling the signals.
Siemian, a 2015 seventh-round draft pick out of Northwestern who won the starting job last year when he beat out veteran Mark Sanchez, quickly surged ahead of Lynch, a first-rounder in 2016 from Memphis, when training camp opened.
Lynch showed more comfort with the new scheme and coaching staff but still proved inadequate at decoding defenses while Siemian was steady and solid, if unspectacular.
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