The are set to get their starting quarterback back, with the rescheduled bye week playing to their advantage. Drew Lock is listed as active for Sunday's game against the New England Patriots and will start the Week 6 matchup. Broncos head coach Vic Fangio revealed Thursday Lock was on track to make his return for Sunday's showdown, but he stopped short of guaranteeing it. Lock hasn't played since Week 2 when he suffered a shoulder injury." Ketel Marte Jersey He definitely could start on Sunday as he looks now," Fangio said Thursday. "We'll hold off on making that final. He had a good practice today, so we'll see how it goes. There were no setbacks."Lock was Yasmany Tomas Jersey a full participant in practice as the Broncos get set to return to the field for the first time since October 1 -- a span of 18 days. The second-year quarterback has only played one full game this season before going down the second week of the year. In his only full start, Lock completed 66.7% of his pa ses for 216 yards and a touchdown in a 16-14 lo s to the . The Broncos had and make starts while Lock was out, A. J. Pollock Jersey going 1-1 in his absence. While Rypien had his moments as a starter, Lock admitted he felt bad letting his backups down as they had to fill in on short notice."It was way harder than it was last year," Lock said of his injury, . "As much as you want to say we prep during the week for guys who aren't Randy Johnson Jersey playing, you hate to put a backup quarterback in a bad spot like that. You take all the reps all of training camp and throughout the week and then whether it was Jeff Driskel or Brett Rypien they had minimal reps compared to what I had, and I put them both in tough spots. "They had to come back and learn game plans and sometimes run plays that they hadn't ran all training camp because I was the one taking the reps. That hurt me and then even for the rest of the team, we had built chemistry throughout training camp and I feel like I Paul Goldschmidt Jersey kind of took that away from us by making the dumb decision and not just taking the sack."