Peyton Manning Both Transcendent And Throwback

DENVER (AP) — Not since he was a skinny 18-year-old freshman at the University of Tennessee has Peyton Manning served as a backup.
With his longtime understudy Brock Osweiler making his seventh straight start for Denver on Sunday, Manning will be the No. 2 quarterback for the first time since replacing an injured Todd Helton against Mississippi State on Sept. 24, 1994.
That’s 7,772 days.
A fourth interception in a loss to Kansas City in mid-November, and a searing jolt of pain in his