ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The Denver Broncos have decided to start rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch on Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons after watching Trevor Siemian throw with an injured left shoulder Saturday, sources confirmed to ESPN.After Fridays practice, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said he wanted to see Siemian throw at the teams practice Saturday morning. Several team sources said Siemian showed some improvement in that session, but it was clearly not enough to satisfy Kubiak, so Lynch was told he will start against the Falcons.Denvers 9News first reported that Lynch would get Sundays start.As of early Saturday evening, Siemian also was expected to be among the Broncos inactives Sunday, so Austin Davis would serve as the teams No. 2 quarterback.Siemian suffered a bruise to his non-throwing shoulder just before halftime of last Sundays 27-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was held out of practice Wednesday, but he threw Thursday and Friday, showing improvement each day.Lynch, who was 14 of 24 for 170 yards and a touchdown in just over a half of work against the Buccaneers, will get his first career start. Lynch took most of the work with the starting offense this past week as the Broncos had tried to prepare for the possibility he would have to start against the Falcons.Lynch will face a Falcons team that is ranked 30th in the league in total defense, 31st in pass defense and tied for 31st in sacks with just four.The Broncos traded up from the 31st pick in Aprils draft to select Lynch at No. 26. He was the third quarterback taken, behind Jared Goff and Carson Wentz.On Friday, Kubiak said Siemians practice on Saturday would have a lot to say about who the Broncos would play at quarterback.Weve got 48 hours here, well see how he is [Saturday], Kubiak said Friday afternoon. ... Well probably work him [Saturday] more than we normally would a player on Saturday just to take a look. Hes made progress every day.When Kubiak was asked how he would decide whether Siemian would play, the coach said it would be determined by the eye test.Me watching him move, watching him make all the throws, Kubiak said. We moved him around some [Friday], which is something we didnt do [Thursday], so just go back and look at the big picture.Siemian suffered the injury when he was sacked by Buccaneers defensive tackle Clinton McDonald just before halftime. To make the tackle, McDonald swung Siemian around and tossed him down directly on the left shoulder.The Broncos have won all four of Siemians starts, and he has thrown for 824 yards to go with six touchdowns and three interceptions. 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Most competitions begin Saturday and, barring a potential disaster, the discussion may actually turn from the problems of Rio to sports from badminton to basketball in an extravaganza that only the worlds biggest sporting event can bring.It will happen in a city of astonishing beauty and incredible poverty. It will happen despite worries about everything from virus-carrying mosquitoes to gun-toting criminals.And it will happen with some athletes eyeing each other carefully, not knowing if the playing field is truly level.The Rio Olympics open with a lot more at stake than gold medals and national pride. Not since Los Angeles rescued the troubled movement with a stripped-down version of the games in 1984 has there been more trepidation about the future of the massive sporting event.Some issues, like the Zika mosquitoes, were out of the control of the International Olympic Committee. 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And the backdrop for these games will be a directors dream, with stunning views from venues around the city, including beach volleyball on the famed Copacabana Beach.The billions in TV revenue have padded the IOC coffers and increased its appetite for adding sports to an already bloated program that for some incomprehensible reason now includes golf. The newest for Tokyo will be sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding, efforts to lure younger viewers into the games while traditional track and field and other sports are in decline.It may turn out that Bach is right. Barring a terrorist attack or mass illness of rowers and sailors, Rio -- for all its myriad of problems -- may be remembered as a success.Proof that no matter how incompetently theyre managed, the Olympics are simply too big to fail.----Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg ' ' '