Alex Singleton tackles and tackles and tackles some more.
The Broncos inside linebacker was rewarded for his prolific start to the season and a particularly strong game Sunday against Arizona on Wednesday when he was named AFC defensive player of the week.
Singleton, 32, racked up 19 tackles and a key fourth-quarter, goal-line sack against the Cardinals. It was the third-best tackle total of his career and the most by a Broncos defender since Singleton had 20 and 21 tackles in a pair of 2022 games.
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Singleton has racked up 13 or more tackles four times already in Denver’s first seven games and leads the NFL by a wide margin with 87 stops through three games.
That’s 16 more than San Francisco’s Fred Warner. Singleton also leads the NFL with 43 solo tackles so far on the season. He’s got four tackles for loss and five hits on the quarterback, too.
Singleton’s first sack of the season came at a good time for the Broncos on Sunday.
Arizona was trailing by two scores late in the game and drove the ball all the way to the 1-yard line. Then Singleton sacked Jacoby Brissett back to the 5-yard line, part of an effort in which Denver’s defense kept the Cardinals out of the end zone for seven straight snaps.
This is Singleton’s first time winning defensive player of the week and the second award for the defense this year. Talanoa Hufanga won it earlier in the season after his pair of interceptions against Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams.
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