1.   Bentley is a local athlete, from Overland High School in suburban Denver, and was pressed into services when Elam went out with a hip flexor injury.

2.   A hip flexor injury prevented him from planting his left leg, and caused some passes to come up short.

3.   Defenseman Sheldon Souray, who played his second game after missing the first two because of a hip flexor injury, started the sequence.

4.   First to bow out was Deanna Stellato, the victim two weeks ago of a hip flexor injury.

5.   For the second time this season, catching prospect Angel Pena is down with a hip flexor injury, so LoDuca gets the call.

6.   Last week junior wide receiver Kenyatta Watson was lost for the season with a hip flexor injury.

7.   Powell missed the first two months of the season with a flexor tendon injury in his right hand.

8.   The eyes were also on her upper-right leg, taped because of a hip flexor injury.

9.   They got off to their worst start in history, and Canseco has been unable to help the cause for two weeks because of a hip flexor injury.

10.   With Jason Elam questionable because of a hip flexor injury, the Broncos will be using a kicker off the street.