Broncos Issue Update on New Starting Right Tackle

Turner followed Outten and rookie head coach Nathaniel Hackett from Green Bay. He's the most experienced OT on the roster with 68 career starts (including 11 for the Broncos in 2018), and thus should be considered the tentative favorite to break the huddle Week 1.

Protecting Russell Wilson — the league's most sacked quarterback since 2017 — is the chief priority. Per Pro Football Focus, Turner ceded three sacks across 497 pass-block snaps for the Packers last season, earning an ally in Hackett.

“Billy is the best, man. I mean, he’s such a great dude," Hackett said in March. "I think that with him—looking back at it, his experience through the flexibility and how he played—he would jump from one position to the other was something that would always blow me away. It was something I would talk to him about just how he approached it and how he works every day as a pro to be able to do something like that and play right tackle, left tackle, right guard. I mean, it’s really unbelievable. Just as a man as he is off the field is just awesome. I love him. I’m so excited to have him on our team.”

Nevertheless, the battle along Wilson's strong side underscores Denver's ever-changing front five, which also could see new starters at left guard and center, replacing Dalton Risner and Lloyd Cushenberry, respectively.

Maybe. Eventually.

“It’s just a matter of just getting on the field and practicing—that’s the bottom line," Outten said. "It’s way too early to go through that. It’s just the evaluation part of this. We’re all new and just feeling each other out. That’s the fun part about this transition. The guys understand that this is a competitive environment but it’s also good to help your teammates. If you go down with a shoelace and you’re not coaching that guy up and taking him under your wing, that’s the next guy up that’s going to help us try to win the [AFC] West. You’re all working together as a team and those guys have been really feeding off each other in that room.”