Broncos tight end Evan Engram injures calf in Week 1 win over Titans

It took all of three quarters for serious injury concerns to surface around two of the Broncos’ most important veteran free-agent additions.

After catching a pass for a third-down conversion late in the third quarter of Denver’s 20-12 win over the Titans on Sunday, tight end Evan Engram came up limping back to the sideline. He walked gingerly to a medical tent on the sideline and quickly emerged, seeming to test that lower right leg on the sidelines.

Engram was ruled questionable in the fourth quarter with a calf injury, though, and didn’t return.

It was a cruel development in an ugly Week 1 win, Denver’s passing offense already sputtering before Engram’s exit. Cruel, too, that it happened with Engram doing the thing — operating as a safety valve for quarterback Bo Nix to move the chain