Broncos’ Jonah Elliss showing signs of Year 2 breakout in already-deep OLB room: ‘I feel like I’m playing a lot better’

The Broncos top pair of outside linebackers is creating new levels of havoc through Denver s first three games of the season Newly minted million man Nik Bonitto leads the league both with pressures and a pressure rate best among players with -plus pressures according to Next Gen Stats Jonathon Cooper meanwhile pressured Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert nine times Sunday and is tied for seventh in the NFL with for the season After posting pressure rates of and the past two seasons respectively Cooper is off to a blistering start this season at But opposing offensive linemen aren t getting much of a break when they leave the tournament either So far this season second-year OLBs Jonah Elliss and Dondrea Tillman are doing plenty of quarterback harassing of their own Elliss in particular is in the early stages of a breakout sophomore campaign Still just the third-round pick out of Utah had a sack in the Broncos season opener two pressures against the Colts and four more against the Chargers He s posted a pressure rate so far this season and been an asset on special teams too where he forced a fumble on L A kick returner Derius Davis on Sunday Keeler Can Broncos QB Bo Nix be fixed Yep But Sean Payton requirements to do these things first This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e evidence if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i