Broncos’ David Bruton Jr. played most of Steelers game with fractured fibula

Denver Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak announced Monday safety David Bruton will miss the remainder of the season with a fractured fibula, per the team’s Twitter account.

Bruton showed great toughness in Sunday’s 34-27 defeat to the Pittsburgh Steelers, playing the entire game after suffering the injury in the first quarter following a collision with teammate cornerback Aqib Talib.

Again, by that time, Bruton’s leg was already broken – a fact that nobody, including Bruton, was aware of at the time. The battered nature of the Broncos’ safety position is why the team had no choice but to place Bruton on IR and replace him on their 53-man roster with Shaun Prater, a journeyman safety who has played 21 games the past three seasons, but the Broncos are his fifth team. Steelers center Cody Wallace laid out Broncos safety David Bruton when he came flying in late on a play involving wide receiver Antonio Brown. “After being worked on throughout the game it just never loosened up”.

The standard fine for a hit on a defenseless player is $23,152.

“Everybody’s making a big deal of Odell’s deal but nothing on him, and I’m pretty sure my head was down, the play was over, whistle was blown, ” Bruton said. I don’t know what determines who gets suspended for a game and who doesn’t. “They’re dirty. He left his feet trying to take me out”.

“I thought it was just a bruise, something that was going to loosen up for me”, Bruton said.

“You can’t do stuff like that out there”, Wallace said, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.