Second-year quarterback Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos are on the rise, however no offense is ideal. The place can the Broncos get higher within the 2025 NFL Draft? Head coach Sean Payton offered a solution.
“There’s two nice allies to assist quarterback play; it is [a] actual good protection and, clearly, an actual, good operating sport. … there will likely be [a] deal with the operating again place [in the draft]. It is a fairly good draft for operating backs,” Payton stated at a press convention Thursday.
Final season, the Broncos averaged 112.2 dashing yards per sport, good for sixteenth within the NFL. Nix was the staff’s No. 2 rusher with 430 yards on the bottom and tied for first with 4 dashing touchdowns. Javonte Williams — who rushed for a team-high 513 yards — signed a one-year take care of the Dallas Cowboys in March.
Denver’s operating again room is at the moment made up of Jaleel McLaughlin, Audric Estime — who rushed for 4.1 yards per carry in his 2024 rookie marketing campaign — Blake Watson and Tyler Badie. Watson and Badie have a mixed 16 profession dashing makes an attempt.
Relating to Days 1 and a pair of of the draft, Denver owns picks 20, 51 and 85. Wouldn’t it take a again within the first spherical, akin to Boise State operating again and 2024 Heisman runner-up Ashton Jeanty — ought to he slide to No. 20?
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“I believe it is all about your imaginative and prescient and your imaginative and prescient for the participant,” Payton stated when requested in regards to the logic in drafting a operating again within the first spherical. “I believe there’s this sense typically instances that there are particular positions which may be extra accessible within the offseason than others. And but, you must take a look at the power. … I believe when you have an actual clear imaginative and prescient for the way you need to use them, I believe it is simply the staff’s feeling for the way good that participant is and what kind of profession we predict he can have.
“After which generally it is simply the best way the draft unfolds. Typically [when] you do not take one, it is not since you do not need to take one, it is simply that possibly one other place landed in your lap. So a number of it’s your staff after which the gamers particularly.”
Different operating backs who may very well be drafted close to the top of the primary spherical or early on Day 2 embody Ohio State’s Quinshon Judkins, North Carolina’s Omarion Hampton, Arizona State’s Cameron Skattebo and Iowa’s Kaleb Johnson, amongst others.
The Broncos’ offseason has been based totally on bettering on the defensive facet of the ball, with them signing former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw and 2022 All-Professional security Talanoa Hufanga on three-year offers apiece and re-signing defensive sort out D.J. Jones to a three-year deal, amongst different strikes. Denver’s greatest offensive transfer has come within the type of signing former Jacksonville Jaguars tight finish Evan Engram to a two-year, $23 million deal.
Payton is coming into his third season as Denver’s head coach, with the franchise going 8-9 and lacking the playoffs in 2023 however going 10-7 and incomes a wild-card berth in 2024.
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