Correll Buckhalter jolts Denver Broncos' running game into high ...

&Mdash; Correll Buckhalter came to the sidelines in the second half Sunday after running an inside zone play and told his fellow Denver Broncos running backs one of them was going to eventually bust a run for a touchdown.

Buckhalter then went out and did the honors himself.

His 45-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter capped a 17-point second half for Denver and was the finishing touch in a 27-6 victory over the Cleveland Browns at Invesco Field.

Buckhalter cut right, then burst into the open field on his longest scoring play in the NFL since Dec. 7, 2003. He completely turned around safety Brodney Pool in space, then rode cornerback Eric Wright into the end zone for the final eight yards or so.

"That's called heart, man," he said. "You're that close to the end zone, you've got to get in."

The Broncos running attack had been largely pedestrian until that series, with 24 carries for 84 yards. But rookie Knowshon Moreno had consecutive rushes of 5 and 17 yards before Buckhalter's off-tackle sprint. Denver finished with 186 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.

"It starts out like that a lot — with guys flying to the ball, flying around, and we kind of get a shot to see what they're going to do," right guard Chris Kuper said. "But as long as we're persistent and stick with it we can run the ball."

Buckhalter's TD was one of six plays of 25-plus yards for the Broncos' offense, one week after the team had five possessions without a first down, allowed three sacks, dropped five passes and committed four offensive penalties against Cincinnati.

Denver in the opener also had failed to advance past Cincinnati's 30-yard-line before a late 87-yard tipped TD reception by Brandon Stokley won the game.

"Any time you can get those explosive plays it helps your offense," said receiver Jabar Gaffney, whose 49-yard reception set up Peyton Hillis' 2-yard TD for a 20-6 Denver lead. "I don't know what the statistics are, but whenever an offense has a big play like that, the chances of scoring goes up, and we showed that today."

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