The Denver Broncos added another wild chapter to their season Sunday against the Carolina Panthers, and this one came on a play that looked almost too strange to count.
Late in the third quarter, with less than two minutes left, Bryce Young and Carolina were sitting at the one-yard line trying to grab the lead. Young went looking for Tommy Tremble, but the throw never got cleanly through. Justin Strnad was in coverage, the pass got deflected, and the ball barely changed direction after glancing off Tremble’s arm.
The Broncos win the challenge on this Devon Key end zone INT 🚫
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That tiny bounce was enough for Devon Key to snatch a remarkable interception.
Is this the craziest interception you've ever seen? 😱pic.twitter.com/fAoMpu8Zbt https://t.co/lXj7Ux0gaN
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Officials initially ruled the play incomplete, but replay settled it. Denver had the ball, even if the whole sequence looked impossible in real time.
It fit the Broncos’ season in a way that’s hard to ignore. The team has been winning, even if plenty of people still aren’t sold on how it looks doing it. Entering Sunday, Denver had already won 16 straight one-score games, and the Panthers game was tracking toward another close finish.
The numbers around the Broncos have been ugly, too. Despite coming off a season in which they reached the AFC Championship game, they entered Sunday with a yardage differential of minus-658, third worst in the NFL according to NBC Sports.
Still, the results keep piling up. Denver was on its way to a win over Carolina, pushing its record to 7-2 and extending its winning streak to four games.
Next up is a matchup with the Las Vegas Raiders on Nov. 22.
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