The Broncos’ latest quarterback swap likely won’t be official until later in the week, as the team inches closer to its meeting with the Redskins and coach Vance Joseph gets ample time to evaluate the health of Paxton Lynch.

“I anticipate it being at the end of the week,” Broncos general manager/president John Elway reiterated Tuesday on the team’s partnering station, Orange and Blue 760. “Find out where Paxton is, see where his health is. But I’m sure they’ll get together at the end of the week and do their evaluation and decide who’s going to start after that.”

Joseph indicated Monday that the decision may come later in the week after he has a chance to see Lynch on the field. Lynch threw the ball and continued his rehab over the weekend, but he hasn’t practiced in full since suffering a high ankle sprain in his Week 12 start at Oakland.

The Broncos return to practice Wednesday and will have plenty to ponder as they look ahead to the final two games.

Brock Osweiler filled in for an injured Trevor Siemian last Thursday and guided the Broncos to four scoring drives to earn their second consecutive victory.

The bounce-back after an eight-game losing streak has taken the edge off a franchise that hadn’t experienced such a long drought in 50 years.

“Anytime you go through an eight-game losing streak like we did, it’s very tough on everybody,” Elway said. “I think there was definitely a relief to say it wasn’t going to be nine in a row and we finally broke the streak. Because when you get in those streaks, those have a tendency to be the topic of conversation and really the only things that you hear.”

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“Brock played well. It would be hard to say he didn’t play well. It’s proof in the film there, but we have a lot of things going on as far as the quarterback deal,” Joseph said. “We want to see Paxton play some, so that’s the truth. We have to see where he is as a player moving into the offseason — that’s important for our football team moving forward. We have to discuss it. Again, we want to make sure he is totally healthy so he can play and play well if he does play.”

The Broncos’ losing streak ended soon after Joseph fired offensive coordinator Mike McCoy and elevated Bill Musgrave in the interim. In Musgrave’s three games as coordinator, the Broncos have won two while averaging about 368 yards of total offense, 149 rushing rushing and 24 points in those victories. They also committed only one turnover in those two wins.

“I think he’s done a tremendous job if you look at the success that we’ve had offensively with the running game,” Elway said of Musgrave. “… That’s never an easy transition, especially during the year. But we’ve seen what Billy can do. He’s simplified things and players have really taken to it and, therefore, playing better on the offensive side. Especially the last couple of weeks, you can see the rewards coming out of that switch that Vance made and guys are getting more comfortable with what Billy does.”

Now if only the Broncos could find a quarterback.