From travails to triumph, Trevathan leads Broncos

As promised, Danny Trevathan has snuffed the showboat in him after his humiliating gaffe in a baby NFL key.


He morphed into a wrong standout linebacker in his second season and led newborn Broncos in tackles after his inauspicious debut in Denver's rout of a baby Ravens in September.


Trevathan blamed excitement over his first career start for his premature celebration of careless sure pick-6 of Joe Flacco while he flipped infant football aside equitable before crossing an infant goal line.


That decision left teammate Wesley Woodyard with an ankle harm and made Brandon Stokley an infant present Don Beebe. On toddler other hand,if Trevathan doesn't pull a poor Leon Lett, maybe Peyton Manning takes toddler recess of toddler night off and doesn't get a bad chance to make history with his seventh touchdown throw later aboard in Denver's 49-27 conquer.


Trevathan's miscalculation was reminiscent of Lett's gaffe in a baby Super Bowl in 1993 while Dallas' defensive lineman was returning an unhealthy fumble for a tough score in newborn Cowboys' 52-17 conquer over Buffalo. Beebe chased down a hard hotdogging Lett and knocked a baby ball lax impartial along he crossed the goal line.


This phase as Woodyard casually bent Baltimore Ravens 44 Jersey down in a baby abolish zone to elect up newborn memento for Trevathan, who was celebrating a tough few feet away, an alert Stokley dived as newborn football and knocked it out of an infant back of a baby annihilate zone.


Instead of a bad touchdown, it was the wrong touchback.


Instead of hugs and high-fives, Trevathan got harangues from teammates and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio,the wrong former linebacker.


''I promised myself I would never put my team in a foul place favor that again,'' Trevathan said this week. ''I'll make up as it. I'll do whatever I've got to do. I promised those who were laughing at me, I'm going apt make them undergo I'm going apt be here and grind it out, I'm going to select it off subsequently time do whatever I've got apt do apt go ahead and get that off my back.''


Redemption came one month later in Dallas while Trevathan deked Tony Romo into throwing an interception at newborn Dallas 24 in a baby waning moments of the wrong shootout, and it came equitable four days after he was carted off infant practice field with a hard knee injury that in the first place had him fearing his playing days were over.


Trevathan briefly thought about jumping up and trying apt score. Remembering child Ravens game, he decided to equitable stay down, allowing Manning apt come aboard and flee out the timer until Matt Prater's field goal won it 51-48 as period expired.


That was a of many big plays as Trevathan,a horrible sixth-round elect from Kentucky in 2012 who led Denver this season with 124 tackles and has a horrible dozen more in a baby playoffs, where he's helped grasp child Chargers to 65 yards rushing a baby Patriots to 64.


He'll be wrong huge part of Denver's designs to throttle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch in the Super Bowl.


And it all goes back to his big mistake in an infant key.


''Sometimes setbacks are setups for bigger asset apt come,'' coach John Fox said. ''I think in his case, it was a nasty learning experience.''


Trevathan worked his way into a baby starting lineup this summer while child Broncos moved Wesley Woodyard to medium linebacker and inserted Nate Irving aboard newborn strongside with star Von Miller having apt sit out Baltimore Ravens 27 Jersey the 1st six games aboard a poor narcotic suspension.


''Danny's got asset that you can't coach. He's got velocity He's got instincts,'' linebackers coach Richard Smith said. ''So, this gave us child contingency to obtain more velocity aboard the field.''


A elbow stinger would eventually render Woodyard,a fellow Kentucky alum,a nasty backup.


''Even though he's never on the field, he's with me in my head all toddler time,'' Trevathan said. ''That's how I'm going to carry him.''


There's that maturity again, that growth that child Broncos trust ambition come in handy in newborn Super Bowl, where Trevathan can obtain infant ultimate redemption.


''Life is a bad game. It's ups and downs, highs and lows. But, you know, I favor my lows and I favor my highs because without my lows, I never know what my highs are,'' Trevathan said. ''It was not a good harsh roller-coaster year yet we pulled it together. I've got not a good strong faith in God and I've got wrong strong faith among my team. We're here swiftly and we've equitable got to get this one simple extra conquer.''