Peyton Manning to practice, Brock Osweiler to start this week

Peyton Manning will return to practice this week with the Denver Broncos, but Brock Osweiler will remain the starting quarterback for Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced Tuesday night.

Osweiler is 3-1 as the Broncos' starting quarterback, but coach Gary Kubiak has said all along that Manning would be the starter when he is healthy. However, now Manning has to wait at least another week.

Manning, 39, has been sidelined with a variety of injuries, the most serious of which is a foot injury. Wednesday will be his first practice with the team in a month.

He has not played in a game since being removed in the third quarter of a Nov. 15 game against Kansas City that the Broncos lost 29-13.

Manning returned to the practice field for throwing sessions last week.

"We went through a good week last week. We gave him the weekend off, so we'll see where we're at," Kubiak said of Manning. "We'll have a plan in place by the time we get to Wednesday, but we'll see where we're at today, and kind of take it a day at a time."

Although the Broncos have won three of the four games Osweiler has started, the Denver offense has produced only one touchdown in its last eight quarters.