Tim Tebow Named Broncos Starting QB

The Broncos have a bye this week, giving Tebow nearly two weeks to prepare for his first NFL start on Oct. 23 in Miami. But as he told reporters Tuesday, he feels he’s already made great strides since coming into the league.

“I feel I’ve improved in several ways, just with my knowledge of the offense and understanding defenses and how we’re trying to attack them and what I need to do to exploit weaknesses that day that they have,” he said, according to the Denver Post.

We’ve all gotten used to calling Michael Vick the most polarizing player in football over the past few years, but that’s really not fair to Tim Tebow. He can sometimes seem like Michael Vick’s doppleganger.

One’s white, the other’s black; one’s thunder on his feet, the other’s lighting; one represents What We Were, the other, What We’ve Become. But even if they’re both on opposite corners of the morality-sports intersection, they’re at the center of a debate about what a quarterback means. The yin and yang of our ongoing search for quarterback enlightenment.

Fox said on Monday that he wasn’t ready to name a starting quarterback but that an announcement could come on Tuesday. After this report, we expect Fox to announce to the public during Tuesday’s press conference that it’s Tebow time in Denver.

The Broncos are 1-4 and their season is quickly going nowhere so evaluating Tebow is the best move right now. Plus, this is the move that the fans have wanted for some time so it will make more than a few people happy in Denver.

With the Broncos season toiling away at 1-4, and Kyle Orton struggling, Fox has one option, Mile High Report says.

Broncos fans have been vocal in their desire to see Tebow play. You could even tell last week when he entered the game, it seemed the entire energy of the fans in the stadium, and the players on the sideline, seemed to change.

The Broncos stuck with Orton into week five in spite of fan pressure to get Tebow playing time. Finally, in week five, Fox brought Tebow off the bench in the third quarter. Tebow did not put together spectacular numbers, but he almost brought the Broncos back from a 23-10 deficit. It’s safe to say that if he had completed the comeback, the lid would have blown off Denver.

Scrambling quarterbacks automatically gain some value over pocket quarterbacks, so that is one thing to keep in mind with Tebow. I personally don’t recommend adding him off your waiver wire, but if you’re feeling a little frisky, maybe you stash him on your bench in case of injury or bye.

“I’d say there will be a strong likelihood that we will address that tomorrow,” he told reporters during his Monday press conference.

Fox said that he’s still evaluating which quarterback gave his team the best chance to win, adding that he’ll tell the players before he tells the media. Only injured players receiving treatment were at the team’s practice facility on Monday; the entire team will be present Tuesday. From the AP:

Now that the game is over, we look to the future. Will head coach John Fox make it official and name Tebow the starting quarterback of the Broncos? The Denver Post predicts that happens this week.

And so the Tebow era likely begins this week.

Tim Tebow will replace Kyle Orton in the Denver Broncos’ home game against the San Diego Chargers. Orton struggled through the first half of the game, completing just six of 13 passes and throwing an interception. Orton will not be under center when the Broncos’ offense takes the field in the second half of the game.

As the Broncos have struggled, fan outcry to start second-year quarterback Tim Tebow has been tremendous. One fan went so far as to take out a billboard suggesting that Tebow get the nod at starting quarterback.