"Generally speaking, that creates that higher level of performance, that competition," Broncos coach Sean Payton said of tough position battles.

The Broncos head coach is deviating from his normal August routine and said Thursday he plans to sit nearly all of his starters in Saturday’s home preseason game against Arizona. Most of them, however, will get 8-10 snaps or so in Denver’s Aug. 23 preseason finale at New Orleans.