The Broncos head to Detroit this weekend to play one of the best young tight ends in football facing more questions at the position on their own team.

It doesn’t come as a surprise that Denver ruled tight end Greg Dulcich out for the Saturday night game. Consider that he’s done two stretches on injured reserve for repeated injuries to his right hamstring and that the Broncos activated him on a short week earlier this year only to see him aggravate the hamstring injury 11 snaps into a Week 6 contest at Kansas City.

What is surprising is that Dulcich is listed Thursday on the injury report as having both hamstring and foot issues.

The second-year tight end was a full participant in Wednesday’s practice, so it’s unclear when the foot issue popped up.

“He looked great at practice today; he’s been running really well,” quarterback Russell Wilson said after Wednesday’s practice.

Denver may have slow-played Dulcich’s return some even without the foot issue, but now he is certainly not returning Saturday night and will hope to be back Christmas Eve against New England.

In the meantime, Denver cleared a spot on the 53-man roster Thursday by waiving outside linebacker Ronnie Perkins. That clears the way to promote tight end Lucas Krull from the practice squad.