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With free agent defections and season-ending injuries to key personnel taking its toll on the team, the Patriots have had to turn to several lesser-known talents to fight their way back into the playoffs.

Patriots wide receiver, Julian Edelman. Staff photo by Keith Nordstrom.

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BY MARK FARINELLASUN CHRONICLE STAFF

FOXBORO — It was the most talked-about topic of the offseason.

Who’s going to replace Wes Welker?

Was it going to be Danny Amendola, the free agent receiver with the Welker-like size and stature and moves, but a history of in-jury-related absences? The latter circumstance came to bear upon Amendola’s productivity, as expected.

Was it going to be tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez? Not af-ter Hernandez found him-self incarcerated on mur-der charges and Gronkows-ki, who missed several weeks rehabbing from last year’s injuries, suffered a torn ACL and returned to the injured reserve list.

Was it going to be one of the several rookie receivers

the Patriots added? Aaron Dobson, Kenbrell Thomp-kins, Josh Boyce all had their moments, but none proved ready to make the impact Welker did in five seasons of 111 catches or more.

Turns out, the Patri-ots had the answer here all along. They just didn’t know it at the time.

Julian Edelman, the converted quarterback from Kent State, did some-thing he had never done in his four previous seasons

here. He stayed healthy — and thus, given the oppor-tunity to be a primary tar-get, he produced Welker-like numbers.

“I don’t think there’s ev-er been any question about Julian’s skills or his tough-ness or his competitive-ness,” Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick said. “This is the year he’s been able to stay on the field, and certain-ly his production has paral-leled his time on the field. He’s always a tough guy you can count on from that standpoint, and this year he’s been healthy.”

Like Welker before him, Edelman downplayed the personal achievement after he set his personal single-season highs of 105 catches and 1,056 yards.

“I mean, it’s cool and ev-erything, but you really go out and you play for oth-er things, like playing in the last game of the year

and winning that game,” he said after the season-end-ing win over Buffalo. “We put ourselves in an oppor-tunity to go one step closer to that. It is definitely kind of cool, just with the road; it’s been a crazy road. It’s definitely been kind of cool.”

With those numbers, Edelman joined Welker and Troy Brown as the only Pa-triots to have caught more than 100 passes in a season.

“Guys that played here in the past like Welk, Ran-dy (Moss, 98 catches in 2007) and then Tom Brady … I mean, he’s helped me a lot,” Edelman said. “You know, being a professional and going out there learn-ing how to deal with the offseason, learning that there is no offseason. It’s about getting better and coming into camp in shape and coming into camp ready and all that stuff.

“So, it was a crazy year because I didn’t get to have that this year with the bro-ken foot,” he added, refer-ring to the injury that end-ed his 2012 season after nine games. “A lot of things haven’t gone my way in the past, you know playing be-hind someone that’s doing really well or whether it’s injuries or not executing certain situations.”

Edelman was asked if he felt added pressure to per-form this year because of all the changes in the lineup and his own history of spo-radic bursts of productivity punctuated by injuries.

“No,” he said. “I mean, that’s not really pressure. Pressure is when you have like $300 in your bank ac-count, like five kids and $800 in bills. That’s pres-sure. It was more of an op-portunity.

“Around here, if you just do your job, you put in

the work and you prepare you’ll be given an oppor-tunity,” he said. “The oth-er receivers have done a great job to come in and just do what they’ve done this year. I mean, this is a tough system, and to have three guys that have nev-er played in the system, two rookies and Danny, you’ve got to tip your hat to those guys because they’ve helped us win a bunch of games as well.”

Edelman has also re-mained one of the best punt returners in the game, with career bests of 35 returns for 374 yards this year.

Keeping himself on the field for all 16 games con-tributed to an overall im-provement in Edelman’s game beyond the numbers, Belichick said.

“That not only has ob-viously helped his produc-tion,” he said, “but it’s led to more consistency with his timing and execution because you’re able to build on it week after week, or day after day for that mat-ter, instead of kind of the way some of his career has been where it goes along and it’s good, and then he misses some time, and then there’s natural kind of backslide and rebuilding to where it was.

“A lot of times you’re just kind of playing catch-up there,” he added, “whereas this year I think he’s really been able to con-tinue to build on all those practices and games, and it’s gotten ahead and gone to much higher ground. Fundamentally, I think he’s still the same player, but the consistency and the ability to build on where he’s been has really been impressive this year.”

Edelman turned in Pro Bowl-worthy season as replacement for Welker

Out of the shadows‘This is the year he’s been able to stay on the field, and certainly his production has

paralleled his time on the field.’

Bill Belichick on WR Julian Edelman

KEITH NORDSTROM / THE SUN CHRONICLE

Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman had career-bests of 105 catches for 1,056 yards.

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FOXBORO — It was be-lieved at the start of this season that if there was an invaluable player oth-er than Tom Brady on the roster, a guy the Patriots could not afford to lose if they were going to contend for the Super Bowl, it was Vince Wilfork.

Then it happened — a torn Achilles’ tendon in the Patriots’ Sept. 29 game at Atlanta that took the 6-foot-3, 325-pound (conservative-ly speaking) interior defen-sive tackle out of his role as the Patriots’ defensive anchor for the rest of the season.

The search for a worthy temporary successor has been a long and winding road, but it has also been an example of how the Pa-triots’ “next man up” phi-losophy has been more than simply lip service.

The Patriots’ first op-tions were a pair of un-drafted rookies, Chris Jones and Joe Vellano, that shared time at the position initially.

“I just went in there and just played football,” Jones said a few days af-ter his entry into the Atlan-ta game in place of Wilfork. “I practiced the whole week and just did what I did in practice in the game. Don’t take any reps off. That’s how you get better. I plan on doing that during Cin-cinnati, too.”

Jones, a 6-foot-1, 309-pound defensive tackle who was claimed off waivers from Tampa Bay on Sept.

12, was active for the first time for the game in in At-lanta. Vellano, a 6-2, 300-pounder from Maryland, also saw plenty of playing time and accounted for a first-down, 13-yard sack of Matt Ryan.

“The biggest thing was you just wanted to get on the field,” Vellano said of his undrafted status, “and football is kind of its own animal. So it gets hard out there. There’s a lot of men-tal (adjustment), more than physical, so I just tried to work hard every day and you never know what’s go-ing to happen. I’m trying to make the best of it.”

Vellano said he felt he was already being men-tored by Wilfork before the injury occurred.

“(It’s) his preparation on the field, off the field, day in and day out really, and the way he handles the games and goes in there,” Vellano said. “He’s one of the best guys but also he’s probably one of the smart-est guys that you ever play around.

“You can’t learn enough from him,” he said. “He’s miles ahead of everybody so you’re trying to just pick

up here and there and just try to gradually pick up his knowledge.”

Jones, meanwhile, had been a sixth-round draft pick of the Houston Texans and had spent nine days on the Tampa Bay roster be-fore the Patriots claimed him off waivers.

“This is the third team, but I’m excited to finally be somewhere I can play,” he said.

It was also believed at the time that veteran Tom-my Kelly, an offseason ac-quisition from Oakland, would play an increased role on the Patriots’ defen-sive line. But a knee injury shelved him for the season, so Belichick and his per-sonnel staff continued the search for reinforcements.

They first traded for Philadelphia defensive tackle Isaac Sopoaga, who

Huge shoes to fillRookies Jones, Vellano and veteran Siliga

have played well in place of DT Wilfork


Patriots defensive tackle Chris Jones sacks Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton (14).

‘He’s miles ahead of everybody so

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FOXBORO — The Patri-ots had the two most im-pressive tight ends in the game at the end of the 2012 season.

At the start and the end of the 2013 season, it’s been a far different picture at the position.

But Michael Hoomanawanui and Matt Mulligan soldier on, doing what they do the best they can, while others are left to sing sad songs about when Rob Gronkowski and Aar-on Hernandez scorched the gridirons of the NFL with their greatness.

“I only can be myself,” Mulligan told reporters re-cently. “I can’t worry about any of that stuff. I have my own skill set. That’s what I do well and I’ve just got to obviously continue to get better and do a lit-tle bit more. I can’t be Rob Gronkowski. I only can be

Matt Mulligan.”“It’s frustrat-

ing, no doubt about it,” Hoomanawanui said of the forces that took two of the best tight ends in the game away from the Patri-ots. “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t. But it’s the NFL. Guys are going to get hurt. Every team has its prob-lems.”

The “problems” have been well-documented. Gronkowski lost nearly half the season to the rehabili-tation of offseason forearm and back surgeries, then had a brief, shining mo-ment back in the lineup be-fore his right knee’s ACL and MCL were torn asun-der.

And Hernandez? Still in jail, awaiting trial on mur-der charges.

“It stinks, but what are we going to do, sit around and cry about it? That’s not going to fix anything,” said Hoomanawanui, a fourth-year veteran out of Illinois who carved out a valuable role for himself in his first season with the Patriots, even before the two studs were gone.

“I keep going back to just getting better each and every day,” he said. “It’s crunch time now. Pretty much every game, you’ve got to treat it like a playoff game, or else you’ll be sit-ting at home very soon.”

“Hooman,” as his team-mates call him, finished the year with 12 catches for

136 yards and a touchdown — about one-tenth of the statistics that Gronkowski has posted when healthy.

Mulligan has two catch-es for 16 yards and a score.

But both do the little things well, especially their blocking skills. And they’re not clueless rookies. Mul-ligan, a Maine native who eventually attended his state’s university where he played football for the first time because his small high school didn’t offer it, has been present for two AFC Championship Games and played in one — for the hated New York Jets.

“It was a great experi-ence, one that you always cherish,” Mulligan said of the 2009 title game, a 30-17 loss by the Jets to Peyton Manning’s Colts. “I don’t remember every game that I’ve ever played in. You re-member some here and there, but I can just re-member a lot about that game, good and bad.”

Mulligan was no strang-er to playoff competition prior to that game. He was a member of the 2008 Ten-nessee Titans that fin-ished 13-3 and lost in the first round of play to the Baltimore Ravens. But in 2009, Mulligan was part of a three-game playoff run that fell one game shy of a Super Bowl appearance for the Jets.

“It was electric,” said Mulligan, who was ac-tive and played in all three playoff games. “I was young. I played my first one in what was my second year in the league, and we were playing at the Colts and we were playing Pey-ton Manning.

“It was one of the best experiences,” he added. “My family flew in from Maine. They came in. It was a big deal. The best way I can describe it is electric.”

Filling in the voidMajor changes at TE position

‘It stinks, but what are we going to do, sit around and cry

about it? That’s not going to fix anything.’Michael Hoomanawanui on the loss of Rob Gronkowski

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Michael Hoomanawanui (47) has caught 12 balls for 136 yards and one touchdown this season, far less than the usual numbers posted by Patriots’ tight ends.

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FOXBORO — Not one sin-gle position group, save for the quarterback and the kickers, has been im-mune to the injury bug that plagued the Patriots this season.

The latest to fall prey was the linebacking corps. Already down Jerod Mayo from a pectoral-muscle in-jury early in the season, the position group lost Brandon Spikes to a knee injury just five days before Saturday’s AFC Division-al Round playoff game be-tween the Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts.

Spikes was trying to play through knee ligament damage, but the strain of movement and contact on the injured joint final-ly proved too much to han-dle. So, it’s “next man up” time again — and the likely candidates are fourth-year veteran Dane Fletcher and rookie Jamie Collins.

“I think our defense knows what we have to do,” said Fletcher, a Mon-tana State product. “It’s al-ways next man up. It’s kind of that philosophy around here and whoever it may be, it’s time for them to fill those shoes.

“Time will tell who fills that role, who fills those shoes,” Fletcher said. “It’s not going to be just one specific person because you can’t do that. It’s going to be the whole team that

steps up.”Mayo was the defensive

play-caller and Spikes was one of the strongest run-stoppers on the team, so re-placing them has not been an easy task. Dont’a High-tower emerged as the Pa-triots’ leading tackler with 97 (55 solo), while Fletch-er had 26 (15 solo) and two sacks and Collins 43 tack-les (24 solo).

Fletcher advanced the old-fashioned way, through special teams to more play-ing time.

“I feel comfortable as a linebacker coming from special teams,” he said. “Coming from the pre-season I feel comfortable getting reps in practice and really harnessing in and practicing and watching film this whole season.

“As a linebacker, you have to know what every-body’s doing, especially the other linebackers,” he said. “So if one guy goes down, you’ve got to know what the ‘Sam,’ the ‘Mike,’ the ‘Will’s’ doing so you can fill in that role. On top of what the D-line’s doing, too. You’ve got to control them and the secondary as well.”

Fletcher lost all of last year to a knee injury, but Patriots’ coach Bill Belich-ick said the timing of his sidelining was such that it helped him prepare for a full-tilt run at a roster spot this year.

“Unfortunately, Dane got hurt in the first preseason game last year,” Belichick

said. “But the good thing about that was it was early enough that so even by the end of the season last year, he was well on his way on-to the rehab and recov-ery. Then when we started OTAs, he was full-go there. He really hasn’t missed anything all year.”

Belichick said Fletcher has increased his value by learning how to play more positions.

“His overall under-standing and experience in our defensive system has

Jarring hits suffered by the linebackers

Hightower emerges as Patriots defensive stopper

‘It’s always next man up. It’s kind of that philosophy around here and whoever it may be, it’s time

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FOXBORO — There were high hopes at the start of this football season that the Patriots’ cornerback posi-tions were set in stone.

There was Aqib Talib, with the Patriots for a full training camp for the first time, and the most prom-ising rookie of 2012, Alfon-zo Dennard, presumably ready to assume a full role as a starter.

Not everything comes to pass as expected, though.

Talib has been pret-ty much as advertised — a solid defender and play-maker when healthy, al-though his sore hip has been an occasional hin-drance. Dennard, however,

has had to wade through a variety of injuries and le-gal entanglements, and his contributions have fallen short of expectations.

But Logan Ryan has ex-ceeded all of the expecta-tions anyone had for him.

The rookie cornerback from Rutgers has been a pleasant surprise, having paid unexpected dividends after having been a third-round draft pick (83rd over-all) for a position where he

was expected to be more of a depth option than any-thing else.

Ryan, a native of Voor-hees, N.J., said he feels the difference between now (with five interceptions to his credit, best among NFL rookies) and when he first stepped on the practice fields in training camp.

“I just feel like I’m in a rhythm,” he said. “It’s the same routine, week in and week out. This is my first year that I can focus sole-ly on football and not have to worry about school, and I don’t have to worry about other things like that. I think that helps out a lot, too.

“It’s a job now,” he said. “That’s how I approach it each and every day, I wake up and go to work.”

Ryan has figured out that he stopped being a rookie sometime during the season, as he learned more and executed his plays bet-

ter. He finished the regular season with 35 tackles (29 solo), 10 pass defenses and 1½ sacks.

“I had some good plays throughout the year, but also had some bad plays, some I wish I could get

back,” he said. “So I’m go-ing to try to tighten that up and limit the bad plays through the postseason.

“Football is football,” Ryan added, “but every-thing’s more important in the postseason. You want to make sure you have your best game, but at the end of the day, it’s still football.

“I would say there’s more focus, but to play for this or-ganization, you’ve got to be really focused and very de-tail-oriented. It just goes along with being a Patriot.”

Players like fellow Rut-gers alum Devin McCour-

ty and injured veterans Vince Wilfork and Jerod Mayo have helped Ryan ac-climate himself to the in-creased pressure he ex-pects the playoffs to begin.

“That says it all,” Ry-an said. “That says a lot about that those guys who are on (injured reserve) but they stick around the locker room still, giving ad-vice to young guys like me. It shows the chemistry of this team and it shows the standards of a Vince Wil-fork and a Jerod Mayo, that they uphold. You don’t want to let them down.”

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seemed to be just a casual-ty of a change of coaching regimes. But Sopoaga has been little more than a blip on the radar screen with just two total tackles.

Free agent find

They may have hit the jackpot with the signing of Sealver Siliga, whose path has taken him from being an undrafted free agent in San Francisco, a member of Denver’s practice squad and a member of Seattle’s practice squad before he was released in October.

The Patriots signed him to their practice squad

late in the month, and was activated for the Hous-ton game. He then start-ed against Cleveland and showed the coaching staff that he deserved a more extensive look.

“It’s never a good feel-ing to get bounced around,” Siliga said of his travels, “but all you can do is put your nose to the ground and work and hope for the best. So that’s basically what I’ve been doing, taking one day at a time as well, not look-ing ahead and not looking back, just taking every day, every moment at a time.”

At 6-2 and 325 pounds, Siliga is similar in size to Wilfork, which helps not

only in the opportunity now, but also for what op-portunities may follow if Wilfork is slow in returning from the serious injury.

In a quirky twist to his tale, he is very close to So-poaga, whose brother is married to a neighbor of the Siliga family.

The bottom line is pro-duction, and there has been a reasonable amount from Wilfork’s replacements. Jones and Vellano both fin-ished with 54 total tackles, 25 and 20 solo hits respec-tively, while Jones had six sacks and Vellano two. Si-liga has 23 total tackles in a shorter period of time (nine solo) and three sacks.

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HUGE: Siliga impressing in short time

VOID: Tight ends stay within new rolesMulligan was still with the Jets the

following year when they had another run to the AFC title game, including a di-visional-round victory in Foxboro over the Patriots, 28-21. That run ended in the AFC title game against Pittsburgh, a 24-19 loss, and Mulligan had been on the in-active list for all of the games.

He now has a chance to make another run for a Super Bowl ring, but won’t com-pare his experiences.

“Every place is different,” he said. “You could never compare them. Every organization has a different way of do-ing things. Here it is fantastic. I will say it’s a great organization, really well-run, really in my opinion the way you should run an organization.”

Hoomanawanui’s touchdown was a nice one-handed grab in Miami, but it came in defeat.

“It was definitely nice to get in the end zone; it’s been a while,” he said. “To do it in that fashion was kind of cool. But I told everyone I’d trade it in for a win in a heartbeat.”

Hoomanawanui took a pay cut of ap-proximately 50 percent to stay on the ros-ter after last season. There are incen-tives in his new contract that would bring his salary for this year up to $1 million, still $300,000 less than he would have

made previously.He said he opt-

ed for the security of staying in one place for a while rather than taking his chances again on the free-agent market.

“It’s tough go-ing from team to team,” he said. “I’ve done that once before, last year, and the learning curve is tough. Usual-ly the guys that pick up on it are the guys that’ll stick around. And I admit the first couple of weeks I even got a little bit of heat from every-one, people in the circle, but it’s just the nature of the game, just come in here and produce early.

“It was difficult,” Hoomanawanui add-ed. “I didn’t really start going until may-be the third, fourth game, midseason even. So being able to come back here in the offseason, in the spring, in training camp, definitely helped my cause.”

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Patriots tight end Mat-thew Mulligan (88) has two catches, one for a TD, on the season.


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helped him,” he said. “It’s helped us and he’s a more versatile player as well as more productive player in the positions that he does play, but he also plays more of them. He’s really done a good job for us in the kicking game with Matt Slater out here for the past few weeks. Dane has really not only stepped up his performance but also he’s given us good leadership and communica-tion on the field.”

Collins took a slightly different route. The Patriots’ first pick in the 2013 NFL Draft (second round, 52nd overall) came in with a bit more of a pedigree, but like Fletcher, he had to make a gradual ascent to play-ing time, working hard on special teams, learning the ropes and then producing in the limited opportunities originally present for him.

“He’s another guy who has worked hard, who has been a consistent guy out there every day in terms of being able to practice, being able to work on his tech-niques, get better, whether it be on the scout team or defensively or in the kicking game,” Belichick said. “I think his confidence is growing, his overall under-standing and anticipation is getting better and his communication with his teammates is improving, too.”

“Whatever position they put me in, whether it’s to cover or to play the run, no matter what it is, I’m going to do my best to do it,” Collins said. “And I guess that’s why I’m here. Whatever it is I’m here to do, I’m going to do it.”

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Patriots linebacker Dane Fletcher (52) celebrates sack against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton doesn’t like being com-pared to Colin Kaepernick.

“Two different players,” Newton said.

Yet the Panthers’ third-year quarterback certainly understands the parallels with his 49ers counterpart. They both entered the NFL in 2011. They’re both big, strong-armed guys who can shred a secondary with their arms and terrorize a front seven with their feet.

“Being a big guy, being fast and being agile and having the art of throwing

like only God has blessed a few people with — and Kae-pernick has it (too),” New-ton said.

Newton and Kaeper-nick go head-to-head Sun-day with a trip to the NFC championship game on the line.

It’s their second meeting this season. Carolina beat San Francisco 10-9 in a de-fensive struggle Nov. 10 at Candlestick Park, a game in which neither quarter-back played that well.

Both are out to change that in the divisional play-offs.

“We didn’t execute the way we should have and I didn’t play well,” Kaepe-rnick said the first game, where he was limited to 91 yards passing and 16 yards rushing and sacked six times.

Newton and Kaepernick shared a room at the scout-ing combine in Indianapo-lis leading up the 2011 NFL draft.

Both were kept busy by the onslaught of interview requests from teams and barely had a chance to in-teract. A few months later, Newton was drafted first overall by the Panthers, while Kaepernick fell to the 49ers in the second round and was selected 36th over-all.

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Newton started right away in Carolina, but was just 13-19 in his first two seasons.

However, after a 1-3 start the Panthers have turned things around win-ning 11 of their last 12 games to capture the NFC South and secure a first-round bye.

Along the way, New-ton threw a career-high 24 touchdown passes and was selected to the Pro Bowl ahead of Kaepernick.

But all of that means lit-tle to Newton.

“I feel as if I haven’t achieved anything worth mentioning yet,” Newton said.

In Newton’s eyes there’s only one goal at the end of this season: bringing home Carolina’s first Super Bowl.

“Nothing is worth men-tioning unless we have something that we can all share with each other for years and years to come,” Newton said.

Coach Ron Rivera said Newton’s maturity this sea-son has been evident with his ability to handle pres-sure on and off the field.

“We’re seeing a guy that has grown the last three seasons,” Rivera said. “He’s done a lot of good things. He’s developed a lot of who he is in terms of our offense. He’s also learned a lot of things in helping him cope and deal with the media and his public im-age. Those are the things you need to do as a football player.”

Newton jokingly com-pared his growth over the past three seasons to get-ting a software update on a Smartphone.

He said all people need one eventually.

“When you go to the gen-eral settings and hit up-date, it just updates the whole software,” Newton said. “When I hit software update, I just hit the install button. I don’t hit cancel or remind me tomorrow. I hit install and hopefully that will take care of me.”

Newton version 3.0 is do-ing just fine.

But he knows to get where he wants to go he has to get by Kaepernick and the 49ers.

“I’m not preparing for Colin Kaepernick,” Newton said. “What he does on Sun-day will not make any dif-ference to me — other than if he does score I will have to respond. And if I score he will have to respond.”

Rivera said it should be a great matchup between two quarterbacks with sim-ilar qualities.

“People talk about this is the future of quarter-backing and yet you turn

around and see Johnny Manziel is coming out,” Ri-vera said.

“So they’re going to

come in all shapes and siz-es. Your quarterback, his skill set has got to fit what you do offensively.

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — John Elway followed up possibly the best free agent signing in NFL his-tory — Peyton Manning — with another jackpot this season.

Wes Welker and Louis Vasquez helped transform the Broncos offense into the highest-scoring team in the Super Bowl era, and a bevy of defensive signings helped rescue a unit that was hit hard by injuries and illness.

Vasquez, a fifth-year right guard lured from AFC West rival San Diego, earned All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors after anchoring an offensive line that allowed the fewest sacks in the NFL (20) this season and pro-duced a league-high six games without allowing a quarterback takedown.

Welker, pried away from Tom Brady in New Eng-land, caught a career-high 10 touchdown passes de-spite missing the final month with a concussion, one of a record five Broncos to reach the end zone 10 or more times.

None of the other seven teams still playing has more than one “go-to” player who has double-digit TDs.

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Although Welker (two years, $12 million) and Vasquez (four years, $23.5 million) were the corner-stones of the Broncos’ free agency haul, Elway, the team’s executive vice pres-ident, signed a slew of oth-ers who also played big roles in helping the Bron-cos go 13-3 for a second straight season.

Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie ($5 million), Terrance Knighton (two years, $4.5 million), Shaun Phillips ($1 million), Quen-tin Jammer ($1.1 million) and Paris Lenon ($940,000) all turned into big bar-gains.

They kept a depleted de-fense functioning through a rash of ailments that claimed starters Von Mill-

er, Rahim Moore, Kevin Vickerson and Derek Wolfe and also turned captains Champ Bailey and Wesley Woodyard into backups.

“We brought in good guys and these guys have been effective for us all year,” Bailey said. “And I thought T-Knight should have made the Pro Bowl. I thought DRC should have made the Pro Bowl. I mean, that’s the type of years they had.”

Last month, Elway signed Jeremy Mincey when he was released by Jacksonville and the de-fensive end has helped the Broncos shore up a run de-fense that was exposed by running back Ryan Mathews and the Chargers (10-7), whom they’ll face again Sunday in the AFC

Divisional playoffs. Elway’s philosophy is

to build through the draft but to add veterans to fill the gaps but only if they’re “guys that will fit in that locker room the right way.”

Elway doesn’t want any-body who will put individ-ual desires ahead of team goals and spoil the chem-istry.

This locker room may be chock-full of superstars but there aren’t any super-sized egos or self-centered jerks.

Mincey, who was re-leased by the Jaguars af-ter missing two team meet-ings and falling out of fa-vor with a front office that gave him a four-year, $20 million contract last year, had to pass muster in El-way’s eyes before he was brought on board.

The Broncos reached out to the Jaguars and deter-mined a change of scenery and a reunion with Denver defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, who was his head coach when he had his best seasons in Jacksonville, would rejuvenate his ca-reer.

“Peyton knew exactly who I was when I walked

into the locker room and welcomed me with open arms and said, `We need a guy like you around,’ and I said, Appreciate it.’ That made me feel really good from a guy like that,” Minc-ey said.

Knighton, who al-so played with Mincey in Jacksonville, said he’s been nothing but a pro’s pro since his arrival in Denver.

A trio of the free agents — Phillips, Jammer and

Vasquez — were long-time Chargers who will be fac-ing their former team this weekend.

Vasquez signed at the start of free agency and he was the only free agent named All-Pro this season, giving Elway arguably the best free agent signing two years in a row.

Phillips came on board over draft weekend to re-place Elvis Dumervil and he led Denver with 10 sacks.

Jammer, a starter for the last decade with the Chargers, started just one game for the Bron-cos this season, and that was only because Rodgers-Cromartie sent him out in his place in San Diego on Nov. 10, unbeknownst to the coaches.

Jammer is like the other free agents in that he was lured by the chance to play with Manning. Unlike the others, he hasn’t seen the field much. But he harbors no regrets.

“I’m trying to win a ring,” he said. “I can’t be picky.”

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Wide receiver Wes Welker (83) was one of the top free-agent sign-ings by the Broncos during the offseason.

SEATTLE (AP) — After nearly two weeks of waiting, the Seat-tle Seahawks finally get a chance to prove they were worthy of the No. 1 seed they earned in the NFC.

After winning on the road in the postseason last week, the New Or-leans Saints no longer have that stigma cloud-ing their franchise his-tory.

Less than six weeks after Seattle made a re-sounding claim to NFC supremacy with a rout of New Orleans, the Se-ahawks and Saints col-lide again on Saturday in the NFC divisional playoff. Since that Dec. 2 matchup where the Se-ahawks all but wrapped up home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs with a 34-7 win, both teams have seen some of their definitions changed.

Seattle has lost some of its home invincibil-ity after losing to Ari-zona in Week 16 to snap a 14-game home win streak. And the Saints are no longer seeking a validating victory away from New Orleans after knocking off Philadel-phia 26-24 last Saturday in the NFC wild-card game, the first road playoff win in franchise history.

“They’re going to know what to expect from our crowd, they’re

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There’s also a bit of history on the side of the Saints. Since 2005, No. 6 seeds are 5-2 against No. 1 seeds in the divisional round of the postseason.

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MORE THAN BREES: Drew Brees is not accustomed to being sti-fled, but that is what Seattle did in the first meeting. His 147 yards passing were a season-low by nearly 100 yards. His 3.87 yards

per pass attempt was the third-lowest of his entire career.

But New Orleans has evolved over the past month. They’re at-tempting to become more run de-pendent and less pass reliant. The Saints had 30 rushing at-tempts in their final two regular-season games, then ran the ball 36 times for 185 yards last week vs. Philadelphia. Mark Ingram rushed for 97 yards against Phil-adelphia, the second highest total in Saints postseason history.

“I was just hoping we have an-other opportunity,” Brees said, “and here we are with that oppor-tunity.”

REDISCOVER RUSSELL: Rus-sell Wilson had arguably the best regular-season game of his ca-reer when New Orleans visit-ed in December. He threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, ran for another 47 yards and com-pleted 73.3 percent of his pass at-tempts. For Wilson, it capped

a four-week stretch where his name was thrown into the MVP conversation.

The subsequent four games led to concern the Seahawks have slumped. Wilson’s numbers dipped significantly. He topped 200 yards passing only once dur-ing the stretch, had only four touchdown passes versus three interceptions and his completion rate was below 58 percent. He was also sacked 14 times.

WHERE’S JIMMY?: Jimmy Gra-ham has been such a vital part of the Saints offense that his dis-appearance in the first matchup against Seattle was stunning. Se-attle used a combination of line-backer K.J. Wright and strong safety Kam Chancellor to shadow Graham. He finished with just three receptions for 42 yards on nine targets.

The Saints should be bet-ter able to counter Seattle’s de-fense against Graham this time.

Wright is out with a foot inju-ry, taking away Seattle’s biggest — and one of its most athletic — linebackers. That will put more pressure on Chancellor and back-up linebacker Malcolm Smith.

“For us, it’s not just going not be one player that will take that job on, it’ll be a variety of guys in the way that we play our cov-erage and our style,” Seattle de-fensive coordinator Dan Quinn said.

HELLO, HARVIN: Percy Harvin might own the award for play-er most written about with least number of snaps this season. He’s been a constant question from the start of training camp until now, first about his ailing hip, then about his recovery, his Seattle debut in Week 11 and then about the complications that sur-faced after. But the problems with his surgically repaired hip have subsided to the point that Harvin will play Saturday with

no limitations. “Everything worked out for

the best,” Harvin said, “and I’m looking forward to being out there and helping this team win.”

INJURY WOES: The Saints were already without safety Ken-ny Vaccaro, cornerback Jabari Greer and linebacker Jonathan Vilma to injuries in the sec-ond-half of the regular season. Then linebacker Parys Haralson went down with the torn pecto-ral against Philadelphia and cor-nerback Keenan Lewis suffered a concussion. Lewis was ada-mant this week he intends to play against Seattle.

Meanwhile, the Seahawks might get more than Harvin back. Tight end Luke Willson could play two weeks after get-ting carted off the field with an ankle injury. And if the Se-ahawks advance, Wright could be ready next week.

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