NFL draft month is finally here. During the annual NFL owners meetings, Sean Payton said the Denver Broncos are about to enter the final stages of their draft preparation. <\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t a lot left to do outside of the Broncos finalizing their big board and parsing through the final medical checks and workouts. Then comes the draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With their first- and third-round picks, the Broncos decided to acquire Jaylen Waddle<\/a> in a trade, which limits what they can do in the actual draft, but they still have ways to add cap space and move around the board, beginning with seven selections.\u00a0<\/p>\n This mock draft will present some of those options by including trades. The trades will be made using recent NFL transactions as data, while limiting how much 2027 capital is included, given reports that teams are hesitant to move next year’s capital because of how the class projects at the moment. <\/p>\n So, let\u2019s get into it. This exercise was done with the<\/a> Pro Football Focus mock draft simulator<\/a>. This will be the only mock I do this year that includes trades.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trade<\/p>\n Denver sat on the board at 62, with Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers, Cincinnati linebacker Jake Golday, Arkansas’ running back Mike Washington Jr, and a few others, still available. I traded No. 62 and 257 to the Cleveland Browns for No. 70 and 149.\u00a0<\/p>\n Round 3, Pick 70<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL draft month is finally here. During the annual NFL owners meetings, Sean Payton said the Denver Broncos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-857299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116359099001140592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}