Both head coaches that will be involved in Sunday's game between the Broncos and Bears seemed to agree with Flacco's assessment.

"Courtland is obvious still a young player, but a [rapidly] ascending … player," Fangio said. "He had a hell of a game the other night."

Added Bears head coach Matt Nagy: "I was impressed with him coming out of college. I think that those big, tall wide receivers that can win any of those 50-50 balls when the ball's in the air — that's what he does, but yet he's a good route runner too. He poses a threat there. You get in the red zone, he can win those jump balls. I think the biggest difference I see just from this Week 1 game versus last year, when we were playing against them in the scrimmage and during the season, is just probably a little more of a confidence and the swag that he has, which you can appreciate. I have a lot of respect for him. He's very talented and he has really, really good ball skills."

In the team's first home game of the season, Sutton will aim to post another strong performance. If the Broncos' second half against the Raiders was any indication, that could certainly happen.

"I felt like we kind of hit a stride in the second half," Sutton said. "In the first half, we kind of had some penalties, so we were killing some of our plays that were working. None of us are concerned too much about the explosiveness and what this offense can do, because we were having plays that were working the first half. We just had some penalties that were offsetting those. Penalties can kill any team. It kills momentum.