In three weeks, Brandon Allen went from Just A Guy to The Guy with a team he still barely knows. The former Arkansas quarterback and sixth-round draft pick arrived in Denver a week before the season opener, was described flatly by his new coach as a guy who’s “got a little something to him” and was known mostly to his new teammates as the new player who looks like Paxton Lynch.



“Just like him,” Todd Davis said.



Only a smidge shorter.



Here’s what else Broncos players knew about Allen before he arrived:



“I knew that he was with the Rams because we played against them in the preseason and that was it,” Courtland Sutton said.



“I knew he went to Arkansas. And I knew he had a play where it was like fourth-and-25 that they converted to win the game,” Tim Patrick said. “But other than that, nah, not too much. I’m a Pac-12 guy, so I don’t really pay too much attention to...