Connections: Sports Edition Coach: Hints, Facts about Puzzle #5

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Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach – a place to gather clues, learn a little more about today's terms, and discuss (and share) results.

Before we continue, a quick public service announcement: At the end of this article you will find an answer in each of the four categories and some more detailed information about one of the answers. So if you want to solve the board without hints, we recommend you play it before continuing.

You can access Saturday's game here.

Today's difficulty

Difficulty is an average rating from our testers who pre-play the game to check quality and accuracy.

Game #5 difficulty: 2.3 out of 5

Notes

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Yellow: ROUGH

Green: BLAST

Blue: CAPITAL LETTERS

Purple: BRONCOS

More reading (and an additional note)

These are Broncos, like the Denver Broncos. Does the board even clarify itself?

Denver was one of six teams to draft a rookie quarterback in the first round this season – Oregon's Bo Nix was selected 12th. Nix got off to a slow start, losing his first two starts, but rebounded with a win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last week.

The athlete's Nick Kosmider covers the Broncos and chronicled Nix's rise from high school varsity quarterback in eighth grade to Denver QB1 before the start of the season. Read it below.