Josh Reynolds shaken after shooting, says Broncos’ Sean Payton

Broncos head coach Sean Payton said Friday that receiver Josh Reynolds is fine but “pretty shaken up” after being shot last week.

“He’s lucky,” Payton told reporters after Denver’s practice Friday. “Obviously the league and the local authorities are taking care of that. I had the opportunity to speak with him. “I was pretty shocked and I’ll leave it at that.”

reynolds was shot last Friday in Denver. 9News, citing court documents, reported that Reynolds and another man were shot in their car after they were followed out of a strip club. Reynolds was shot twice, in the left arm and the back of the head, and another man was shot in the back, according to the television station’s report.

Payton said he spoke with the team Friday about the incident.

“Today we have counseling and a lot of resources that come into play,” Payton said. “All that.”

After practice in the team locker room, the details of the incident didn’t matter. Teammates said they were just glad Reynolds was okay.

“It’s crazy knowing that if you think about it, we could have easily lost one of our teammates and not only that, but a brother very close to me and a teammate very close to me and my family,” he said left tackle Garett Bolles. whose locker is next to Reynolds’. “Someone I love and care for and talk to regularly. Just knowing that, I don’t want to talk too much about the whole situation because I don’t know, I’ll leave it in the hands of the authorities, the police and the NFL, I just hope that justice is served. the people who were involved in trying to take someone’s life.

“There is never anything in this world: no time, no place, no altercation, no nothing that (justifies) trying to take someone’s life.”

Reynolds was present at Friday’s practice as he had the previous two days. He was already on injured reserve after a broken finger earlier this month required minor surgery. That’s why he didn’t travel to New Orleans last week. The Broncos team landed back in Denver in the early hours of Friday, around the same time the shooting allegedly occurred.