With three running backs, including the two at the top of the depth chart, not on the field Saturday night for the Broncos' practice in Invesco Field at Mile High, there has to be at least some concern at this point of what the Broncos rushing attack will look like when they open the regular season in Jacksonville.
Because at this point, all public pronouncements by the team aside, it sounds like it would be a surprise if Knowshon Moreno plays much, if at all, in the preseason because of a hamstring injury and Correll Buckhalter is headed to a specialist this week to look at his back/neck.
The team hasn't publicly discussed Buckhalter's injury, but put the words "neck" or "back" and "specialist" in the same sentence and over the years that has usually meant teams are looking at the discs in the spine to see if there are any that have become herniated or out of position that are pushing on nerves, etc ...
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