About an hour into Broncos practice Monday, attention turned to the crowd of players watching team drills from the sideline. Emmanuel Sanders and Courtland Sutton appeared to exchange words, then the former launched for the latter, requiring Ron Leary and his fellow linemen to separate the two.



When they thought tempers cooled, Sanders and Sutton went at it again. Punches were thrown and more teammates jumped to try to keep them apart.



That wasn’t the end of it though.



Chatter continued and resulted in a water bottle being thrown, along with the exchange of curse words.



Scuffles in practice are inevitable. But scuffles within a positional group between the top two players are rare.



The impetus for this one wasn’t clear, but as the dispute unfolded, Sanders was clearly upset as he told Sutton he was trying to “get the team right.” With choice words, he also told Sutton that, as a second-year player, he hasn’t...