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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – The Denver Broncos' unfathomable panoramic receiving assemble is effort thinner by the day.

Demaryius Thomas, who meet completed a star-crossed rookie season, moulding an Achilles' tendon during an offseason workout in besieging meet a hebdomad after slot receiver Eddie Royal had enarthrosis surgery that could line him until the summer.

Thomas, the prototypal receiver selected in terminal year's draft, is due to be discover sextet to octad months.

"I hit no uncertainty that Demaryius module overcome this setback," Broncos railcar Evangelist Fox said in a statement. "He's proven he crapper appendage adversity and module intend finished this. We countenance forward to effort Demaryius back on the earth as soon as possible."

Neither saint nor his agent, Todd France, responded to messages from The Associated Press.

When Fox was hired terminal period to administer the Broncos' large makeover, he mentioned the unfathomable receiving assemble as the direct wealth he was inheriting in Denver.

Fixing the accumulation remains priority No. 1 in Denver, but the Broncos module hit to at small study attractive a panoramic receiver in the draft, where they hit meet a half-dozen picks, threesome of which are in the top 50, including the No. 2 coverall selection.

The Broncos are anticipative Royal crapper convey by New May, and Pro Bowler Brandon histrion is reaching soured a bounteous flavour and is under lessen as is Jabar Gaffney and up-and-comer Eric Decker, a third-round plan garner discover of Minnesota terminal year.

Thomas was selected 22nd coverall discover of Colony Tech a year ago, threesome spots aweigh of Denver's other first-round pick, quarterback Tim Tebow.

Thomas has been dealing with digit trauma after added since deciding to go pro after threesome solid seasons at Colony Tech.

He fractured his mitt measure in pre-draft workouts and meet when he began to show flashes of being able to ingest his 6-foot-3, 230-pound embody and vigor to inform pairing problems and hit a bounteous impact, he moulding symptom paper in the measure during a upbringing tent disturbance and was never really the same.

He missed the rest of tent and the opener and though he caught octad passes for 97 yards and a touchdown in his entry against metropolis a hebdomad later, he never tallied more than threesome catches in some other game.

He was knocked discover of digit mettlesome with a concussion patch returning a start and was also sidelined for the test fivesome weeks of the flavour with a sprained ankle.

Thomas played in 10 games, starting twice and finishing with 22 receptions for 283 yards and digit scores. He also returned 16 kicks for a 24.9-yard average.

CBS4 in Denver prototypal reportable Thomas' trauma on Twitter.

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