Will new Broncos OC Davis Webb actually commit to the run this season?

There’s a kind of energy that comes with a coach getting his first real shot. The notebooks are full. The ideas have been marinating for years. The whiteboard sessions have been playing out in his head long before anyone handed him the headset.

Davis Webb is stepping into the Broncos’ offensive coordinator role with all of that built-up ambition. And Mike Evans doesn’t think any of it involves handing the ball off thirty times a game.

On a recent edition of “Stokley and Evans, with Mark Schlereth” on 104.3 The Fan, Mike Evans laid out the case for why the Broncos offense is about to look fundamentally different in 2026. Not because the personnel has been overhauled, but because the man calling the plays has an entirely different instinct than the one who came before him.

Evans started by framing just how much momentum Webb carries into this opportunity.

“Here’s a guy who just came off an offseason in which he talked to other teams, other teams were definitely interested in him not only as being the play caller, maybe even head coaching interviews,” Evans said.

Webb isn’t a coordinator who fell into the role by default. He’s a rising coaching talent that other teams in the league tried to poach, someone whose offensive mind was valued enough that other franchises came knocking. That kind of external validation doesn’t produce a play caller who wants to play it safe. It produces one who wants to prove why everyone was chasing him in the first place.

Evans then connected that ambition to the reality of what Webb is likely to prioritize.

“Here’s a guy who you know has got all kinds of ideas rattling through his head. He’s been writing things down and devising game plans and all that kind of stuff. You really think he wants to commit to the run?” Evans said.

He then drove the point home with a comparison that cuts right to the heart of the argument.

“You really think he wants to commit to the run? I mean you’ve got an accomplished, successful, sure-fire Hall-of-Famers like Andy Reid, who have no interest in running the football, zero interest in running the football. And you’re convinced that this guy in his first go-around’s gonna be committed to it? I’ll believe it when I see it,” Evans said.

That’s the framing that makes the projection feel less like speculation and more like inevitability. If one of the greatest offensive coaches in NFL history has spent an entire career choosing to throw first and run only when absolutely necessary, why would anyone expect a young, pass-game-oriented coordinator, one who was literally a quarterback himself and spent his coaching career as a QB coach, to suddenly fall in love with the ground game?

Evans closed with the simplest possible read on who Webb is.

“This guy wants to throw the ball,” Evans said.

The ingredients support the vision. Jaylen Waddle gives Nix a deep-threat weapon the offense has never had. Courtland Sutton remains one of the most reliable outside receivers in football. Troy Franklin and Pat Bryant have both taken meaningful developmental steps. The Broncos haven’t produced a 1,000-yard rusher since Phillip Lindsay hit 1,011 in 2019, and that drought isn’t likely to end with a play caller whose entire professional background is rooted in the passing game.

None of this means the Broncos will abandon the run entirely. But Evans isn’t expecting Webb to build his identity around it either. The air raid is coming. The weapons are loaded. And the man calling the plays has been waiting his entire career for the chance to unleash them.

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