Denver, CO (Sports Network) – Denver Broncos center J.D. Walton underwent a second surgery on his left ankle Monday and will miss the start of the upcoming regular season, according to the Denver Post.<\/p>\n
Sources told the newspaper that Walton had a follow-up procedure to repair existing hardware in the ankle, which he fractured and dislocated during a Week 4 rout of the Oakland Raiders on Sept. 30 of last season. The fourth-year pro was placed on injured reserve shortly afterward.<\/p>\n
Walton is expected to be sidelined until late October or early November, though the possibility he could miss the entire season exists if any further complications arise.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old has served as the Broncos’ regular center since entering the NFL as a third-round pick in 2010, starting a total of 36 games over that span.<\/p>\n
The Post also reported that Walton’s injury could prompt the Broncos to bring back veteran Dan Koppen, who took over as the team’s center for the final 12 regular-season contests as well as Denver’s loss to Baltimore in the AFC Divisional Playoffs. The 33-year-old Koppen is presently an unsigned free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Denver, CO (Sports Network) – Denver Broncos center J.D. Walton underwent a second surgery on his left ankle Monday and will miss the start of the upcoming regular season, according to the Denver Post. Sources told the newspaper that Walton had a follow-up procedure to repair existing hardware in the ankle, which he fractured and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[127,126,125],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}