Broncos running back Ronnie Hillman has made the most of the opportunity provided by Montee Ball’s injury over the past few weeks and there’s been talk that he’s earned a bigger piece of the pie in the backfield even after Ball returns to action.
That makes it a very bad time for Hillman to get injured, which is what appeared to happen when he popped up on the Wednesday injury report as limited in practice because of a shoulder injury. Hillman didn’t have any injury concerns heading into the session and said after the practice that he “landed on it funny” while adding that he wasn’t expecting there to be an issue moving forward.
“No, I’m not, I’ll be at practice [Thursday]. So, I mean, I plan on being at practice [Thursday],” Hillman said, via ESPN.com. “I don’t know what they’re talking about. But I’ll be fine. It’s nothing that I can’t deal with.”
Hillman has run for 283 yards on 58 carries over the last three weeks, which is much more productive than what Ball was doing before he got hurt. Losing the offensive balance he’s provided heading into New England would not be a good thing for the Broncos, but it doesn’t look like anything they’ll need to worry about this week.