Ryan Koenigsberg

Every once in a while, one of those seasons comes along. In 2011, Tim Tebow came in for a 1-4 Denver Broncos team — and with the help of some divine intervention — somehow got them to the playoffs, beating the Steelers with one of the most iconic moments in team history: Tebow to DT. In 2016, the Denver Nuggets got off to an ugly 9-16 start.

Author Ryan Koenigsberg Ryan is a Co-Founder and the Vice President of Content Strategy at DNVR. He's also the host of the award-winning DNVR Broncos Podcast and a Broncos columnist for the network. If you couldn't tell based on the fact that he never stops talking about the Buffs, RK graduated from the University of Colorado with a double-major in Journalism and Communication back in 2015, just a few weeks after helping launch then-BSN Denver.

If you only knew what he’d been through, you might be surprised. Surprised that, in the wake of his tragic death, nobody who knew Demaryius Thomas wants to talk about his football ability. They don’t want to talk about the catch against the Steelers in the playoffs. They don’t want to talk about when he set the record for catches in a Super Bowl. They don’t want to talk about his relentless toughness between the lines.