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Broncos’ McGahee Ready to Play Despite Broken Right Hand

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Den­ver Bron­cos run­ning back Willis McGa­hee says his bro­ken right hand shouldn’t hin­der him Sun­day at Oakland.

McGa­hee prac­ticed Thurs­day for the sec­ond straight day and was able to carry the ball in either hand.

“He’s looked great,” offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Mike McCoy said. “It’s great to have him back out there.”

McGa­hee missed last week’s game against Detroit after under­go­ing an oper­a­tion to insert screws and a plate into his right hand, which he broke on a defender’s face mask at Miami a week earlier.

This week he’s been wear­ing padding over the incision.

“I don’t think it will affect me,” McGa­hee said. “I’m feel­ing pretty good about it. It’s actu­ally not get­ting in the way, so there’s no prob­lem there.”

McGa­hee said he’s not wor­ried about defend­ers tar­get­ing his right hand, either, because he can always cover it with his left hand.

“If they do” go after it, “then I’ll go after them,” he said. “I will get the last laugh.”

McGa­hee said he suf­fered what doc­tors call a boxer’s fracture.

“I can bend my hand with­out it hurt­ing or any­thing,” he said while demon­strat­ing by clench­ing his fist and relax­ing his hand.

McGa­hee wasn’t the Bron­cos’ start­ing tail­back when Den­ver lost 23–20 to Oak­land in the opener. Den­ver rushed 13 times for 38 yards in that game, and coach John Fox said Thurs­day that he “aban­doned the run too quickly” that night.

“We’re going to have to do a bet­ter job of bal­anc­ing the attack this time around,” he said.

And that’s where McGa­hee comes in, bro­ken hand and all.

He’s had three 100-yard games since sup­plant­ing Know­shon Moreno as the starter in Week 2.

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