Broncos may have gone too far with this rookie’s rat haircut

The Broncos welcomed their rookies to the NFL with awful haircuts with Connor McGovern getting a rat shaved into his head.

One of the most common pieces of hazing in the NFL, outside of the training camp talent show, is the rookie haircut, in which the professional football players turn into amateur barbers and butcher the hair of their newest teammates.

These are generally funny and good-natured and resulted in Tim Tebow briefly sporting a monk’s tonsure back in his first season with the Broncos. This year Denver went even further, shaving a rat into the head of Connor McGovern in what is likely the worst, or best, haircut in training camp history.

Strong alone. Unstoppable together.... buuuut defense won in bowling tonight. 💪🏿🎳 #Horsepower #NiceHairRookie 😜 pic.twitter.com/LwOieKDBjn

— D-Ware (@DeMarcusWare) August 17, 2016

Rookie haircut day for the Broncos, Kapri Bibbs shared a few on snapchat 😂 pic.twitter.com/Kxvm2I1y4r

— RK (@RyanKoenigsberg) August 16, 2016

In the clip above you can see the Broncos also brought back the hairdo sported by Tebow for their team bowling night. Unfortunately the team forgot to try out the innovative “handprint haircut” the Colts rolled out a few seasons ago.

GALLERY: NFL ROOKIE HAZING THROUGH THE YEARS

NFL Rookie Hazing Through the Years

Tim Tebow

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Jon Beason

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Von Miller

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Rashad Jennings, Tiquan Underwood and Zach Miller

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Michael Vick

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Alterraun Verner

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Doug Free

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Odell Beckham

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Kevin Barnes and Robert Henson

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Jimmy Garoppolo

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Lucas Nix

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As training camp begin to open, SI.com looks back at NFL rookie hazing through the years.

Tom Brady

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Tom Brady

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LeGarrette Blount

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Kyle Newhall-Caballero

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Patrick Trahan

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Chas Alecxih

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Joel Hale

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Olivier Vernon

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Patrick Ramsey and Steve Spurrier

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Phil Costa and Will Barker

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J.D. Walton

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Travis Ivey

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Jason Smith

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Tom Brandstater and Blake Schlueter

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Jason Chery

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Carolina Panthers

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Mike Elgin, Justin Rogers and Clint Oldenburg

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Jarvis Moss

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Zach West and Oscar Lua

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Tim Crowder

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Pat McQuistan and Dennis Roland

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Rob Ninkovich

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New England Patriots

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Reggie Poole

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Taylor Whitley

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Jamal Brooks

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Jason Gamble, Ben Adams, Zach Piller and Ian Rafferty

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Michael Hawthorne

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Stephen Gostkowski

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Jamal Brooks

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Brady Quinn

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Sammy Watkins

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Stephen Houston

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Jordan Sulten

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Detroit Lions

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Detroit Lions

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Joel Hale

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DeMarcus Ware

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Training camps run the constant risk of information overload for followers of the NFL news cycle: Rosters balloon to a maximum of 90, players are held out of practice with mysterious injuries, the media relays context-free stats and success rates from obscure camp drills and coaches do everything they can to keep from saying anything interesting. And that’s all before the preseason games themselves, a notoriously frustrating tease for the real action that begins in September.