Marvin Mims Is Active, and Denver Is Still Out of Running Backs

RJ Harvey is listed Active this week, which is something. What it is not is a solution. Harvey's role in this offense has always been as a gadget piece — a receiver who takes handoffs, runs jet sweeps, lines up in the backfield as a decoy. He rushed for 597 yards last season, but those came in small packages, manufactured touches designed around his quickness rather than his ability to absorb a full workload between the tackles. Asking him to carry a ground game is a different assignment entirely.

Dobbins remains out. Tyler Badie is active but has never been a feature back. Cody Schrader is still the third name on the depth chart, which tells you everything about where this roster stands. There is no one behind those three with meaningful snaps at the position. The depth chart has a starter's slot and then a long drop to players who are here because someone has to be.

The offseason warning was loud enough. When the season opened, Denver had no viable backup behind Dobbins — that was a known, documented problem before Week 1 kicked off. Now Dobbins is gone, Harvey is being asked to do something he was never built to do, and Badie is the steadying presence in a room that has no business being this thin on a team that went 14–3 a year ago. The ground game is being held together with whatever is available, and what is available is not much.