{"id":644151,"date":"2025-12-31T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644151\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:14:12","slug":"te-nate-adkins-wr-pat-bryant-return-to-practice-for-broncos-ahead-of-week-18-game-vs-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644151\/","title":{"rendered":"TE Nate Adkins, WR Pat Bryant return to practice for Broncos ahead of Week 18 game vs. Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 A pair of Broncos returned to practice Wednesday ahead of the team&#8217;s regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<p>Tight end Nate Adkins (knee) and wide receiver Pat Bryant (concussion) were both limited participants in Wednesday&#8217;s practice after being held out of Denver&#8217;s Week 17 win. Both players suffered their injuries in Week 16.<\/p>\n<p>Inside linebacker Karene Reid (hamstring), who was designated for return ahead of Week 16, remained a full participant in practice. Reid has not yet been activated to the Broncos&#8217; 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Ben Powers (biceps) also remained a full participant after playing 41 snaps in Denver&#8217;s win over the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers (hip) was listed as a limited participant for the Broncos, while linebacker Dre Greenlaw (hamstring) was the lone player who did not practice.<\/p>\n<p>Denver will announce an additional set of practice statuses on Thursday before sharing its Week 18 game statuses on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos face the Chargers with a chance to clinch the No. 1 seed in the AFC on Sunday, Jan. 4 at 2:25 p.m. MT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 A pair of Broncos returned to practice Wednesday ahead of the team&#8217;s regular-season finale. Tight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,17416,77161,3889,6,1011,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-644151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-injury-report","15":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-at-denver-broncos-2025-reg-18","16":"tag-nate-adkins","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pat-bryant","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115816724429842502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}