WATCH: Denver quarterback Drew Lock runs for his second touchdown against the Chiefs
Denver quarterback Drew Lock is looking more like a running back today than a quarterback. He just rushed for his second touchdown run of the game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Watch as the former Missouri Tiger signal-caller runs 23-yards to paydirt.
The score was his second rushing touchdown in the game and put the Denver Broncos up 14-7 with over seven minutes remaining in the first half. The game is currently on ESPN.
Lock has played the past few games for Denver due to Teddy Bridgewater still remaining in the concussion protocol. Lock suffered an injury himself last week against the LA Chargers, when he injured his right shoulder.
He exited the Chargers game briefly, but returned and played through the injury. He completed 18 of his 25 pass attempts for 245 passing yards, while tossing one touchdown and no interceptions.
As a passer against the Kansas City Chiefs tonight, Lock missed a couple of throws early in the first half, including just missing Jerry Jeudy down the field twice.
In the first half, Lock had 35 rushing yards, 27 passing yards, and two touchdowns (both were rushing).
Drew Lock’s career arc as a quarterback
In 2020, Lock put up decent numbers for the Broncos, but got in a lot of trouble with his propensity to push the football down the field. His willingness to take risks down the field left him with an ugly 16 to 15 touchdown to interception ratio at the end of the season. He also completed 57.3 percent of his passes for 2,933 yards.
The 15 interceptions were a big reason why the Broncos decided to bring in Teddy Bridgewater in the 2021 off-season, but he hasn’t looked like the answer in Denver either.
The team has a remarkably talented receiving corps so it’ll be exciting to see if they can bring in an elite signal-caller in the 2022 off-season, whether it’s through the draft or free agency.
Storied Missouri career
While at Missouri, Lock threw for 12,193 passing yards, becoming only the 35th FBS quarterback in college football history to throw for over 12,000 career passing yards. The 12,193 career yards are second in SEC history and his 99 career touchdown passes are the third-most in SEC history. Simply put, Lock peppered his name all over the Missouri and SEC record books during his time there. When he left Mizzou, he left holding 10 of the top 25 career single game passing yardage marks in school history–the most of any quarterback in program history.