Live updates and highlights from the NFL Week 5 game

The Broncos (1-3) earned their first win of the year after their fourth-quarter comeback win over the Bears. Can they keep the momentum going? Stick here for live updates and analysis as Denver takes on the Jets at Empower Field at Mile High.

Live updates

Pre-game updates

Good morning from Empower Field (11:28 a.m.): It’s Zach Azzanni and Billy Turner Return To Denver Day. Just kidding. Those guys are back with the Jets, of course, but the bigger story is Nathaniel Hackett’s return.

Denver’s getting healthy, with Justin Simmons and P.J. Locke back in the secondary and OLB Frank Clark cleared off the injury list, too. More than 2.5 hours before kickoff, RB Javonte Williams (hip flexor) is on the field stretching and getting loose under the watchful eye of Denver training staff. He’s questionable, but was a full participant in practice on Friday. We’ll know in the next hour or so if he gets the green light. Otherwise it’ll be mostly Samaje Perine and Jaleel McLaughlin for Denver in the backfield. — Parker Gabriel

Scouting report (10:35 a.m.): Check out how the Broncos match up with the Jets in Ryan McFadden’s scouting report.

Game predictions

Parker Gabriel, beat writer: Jets 20, Broncos 19

Feels like a coin flip game, but for as much progress as Denver’s offense has made through the first four games, the Jets still represent the best defense on the schedule so far. The group held Buffalo to 22 and Kansas City to 23. The interior defensive line is a force. And yes, this means Nathaniel Hackett exacts some revenge at Empower Field, where he’ll likely hear play clock countdowns and… all sorts of other stuff.

Ryan McFadden, beat writer: Broncos 20, Jets 17

No way Sean Payton talks all that trash about Nathaniel Hackett and the Jets just to lose. Right? New York’s defense will have an edge but I’m not sold on Zach Wilson even after a solid performance against the Chiefs. This won’t be a pretty matchup but the Broncos will figure out a way to get it done.

Mark Kiszla, columnist: Jets 20, Broncos 17

What’s the difference between two NFL teams desperate to keep hope alive? The way I figure it, our old friend Nathaniel Hackett will do what he does best in the Mile High City: Find a way to get the Broncos beat.

Sean Keeler, columnist: Jets 21, Broncos 20

Whipping the Bears is like whipping the Texas State Fightin’ Armadillos from the 1991 movie “Necessary Roughness.” For all the talk about Nathaniel Hackett versus Sean Payton, this one comes down to Huggy Bear against Vance Joseph. As in, can anybody in orange cowboy up and tackle Breece Hall when it matters? In a pillow fight involving two coordinators over their respective skis, lean toward the roster that can run the ball and play defense on the road.

Broncos-Jets NFL Week 5: Must-reads

Sean Payton is doing with Russell Wilson what Nathaniel Hackett couldn’t. But what if that was the easy part?

Here we are, though, a quarter of the way through Sean Payton’s first season in charge, and Russ is revived. Or is at least trending that way. Arrows up across the board. Career norms restored or even exceeded.

Small sample size? Sure, there’s a lot of season left and the New York Jets bring the best defense the Broncos have faced yet to Empower Field on Sunday. Even if the production levels off or a bumpy game is on the horizon, Payton’s already shown he could do at least one thing Hackett couldn’t: get Russell Wilson comfortable and playing at a high level.

The fact that it’s happened over a 1-3 start and the daunting parts of the schedule are still ahead introduces a more complicated question to consider: What if rebooting Russ was the easy part? Read Parker Gabriel’s full story.

Broncos’ Pat Surtain II, Jets’ Sauce Gardner are in early stages of their careers and already have made major impacts

For former cornerback Richard Sherman, Broncos’ Pat Surtain II and New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner, who will share the field Sunday at Empower Field at Mile High, represent the next generation of great cornerbacks. Both have established themselves as among the best at the position just a year or two removed from college — and they aren’t alone either.