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We really wanted Bradley Chubb and are thrilled to make him a Denver Bronco.

Bradley's the best defensive player in the draft. He can rush the passer, is a hard worker and will be a great fit, complementing Von, Shane & Shaq! pic.twitter.com/pEHS4kmyG2

— John Elway (@johnelway) April 27, 2018

Drafted Rookies

• 1st (#5) – Bradley Chubb, Edge, North Carolina State
• 2nd (#40) – Courtland Sutton, WR, SMU
• 3rd (#71) – Royce Freeman, RB, Oregon
• 3rd (#99) (compensatory) – Isaac Yiadom, CB, Boston College
• 4th (#106) – Josey Jewell, LB, Iowa
• 4th (#113) (from Washington) – DaeSean Hamilton, WR, Penn State
• 5th (#149) (from Washington) – traded to Seattle
  
• 5th (#156) (from Seattle) – Troy Fumagalli, TE, Wisconsin
• 5th (#160) (from Los Angeles Rams) – traded to Los Angeles Rams
• 6th (#183) (from Miami via Los Angeles Rams) – Sam Jones, G, Arizona State
• 6th (#217) (from Oakland via Los Angeles Rams) – Keishawn Bierria, LB, Washington
• 7th (#226) (from New York Jets via Seattle) – David Williams, RB, Arkansas

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Happy Draft Day, Broncos fans! As promised, here again is your opportunity to enter a 1st round mock draft for the chance to win… still nothing, just like the last two years. Sorry I’m so late getting this up. Evolving priorities have limited my time and interest in my usual pre-draft work. Nevertheless, I thought it would be fun to do this again.

Continue reading 3rd Annual In Thin Air Mock Draft Challenge

Post your last minute mocks or round by round predictions here. You can easily find this thread to track your accuracy next year. I’ll post my final 2018 Bronco mock on here later today.

GO BRONCOS!

Rather than do another mock draft for 2018, I’ve decided to review my picks from the mock draft I did last year.

I did some wheeling and dealing in last year’s mock, trading picks 20, 51 and 127 to Philadelphia for 14 and 77 in a vain attempt to land Christian McCaffrey. In a separate deal, I sent 101 to the 49ers for 109 and 161.

Here we go.

Continue reading 2017 Mock Draft Review

Sources: The #Giants are in the process of trading for #Broncos P Riley Dixon. When Marquette King signed in Denver, he was on the trading block and NYG swooped in.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 20, 2018

The trade is finalized. Dixon for a conditional 7th round pick in 2019 https://t.co/ueUkyp0lDi

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 20, 2018

Ever since I started writing for this site a couple years ago, I’ve been dancing around mentioning a highly-apparent but difficult-to-describe phenomenon.  Simply put, NFL players have been changing dramatically in recent years. What was once a subtle distinction between players has grown to become a hard schism. And in the process, long-time NFL trends/ wisdoms have been overturned.

Continue reading Large-Scale Trends and the 2018 NFL Draft (part 1)