Wide Receiver · Denver Broncos

Troy Franklin

No. 11 · 3rd season

Franklin came back different, and the Broncos noticed

There is a version of Troy Franklin that the Denver Broncos thought they were getting. Last year's version wasn't it.

His rookie season was a struggle — the kind where a young player spends more time adjusting to how fast everything moves than actually playing. Franklin came in with real expectations and left that first year without meeting them.

So he did the work. He added weight. He showed up to the team's offseason practice sessions a different player, and then kept showing out through the mandatory spring sessions that followed. The coaching staff, teammates, the people paid to scout this stuff — they all saw it. He was the name everyone kept bringing up.

Then training camp started, and it carried over.

That part matters. Offseason performances are easy to discount — pads are off, schemes are light, nobody is really hitting. Training camp is where you find out if the version you saw in the spring was real. For Franklin, it was.

The question now is whether the regular season gets the same answer.

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