For the first time since Peyton Manning's retirement, the Denver Broncos are approaching an NFL draft without any need to consider a long-term plan at quarterback.
After selecting Bo Nix in the first round of last year's draft, the Broncoshave their quarterback situation settled. That's the biggest and most important position to have sorted, but there's still plenty of work to be done to continue building the 90-man offseason roster.
“It’s nice [to have QB set], but there are always different challenges," general manager George Paton said at the NFL's Annual League Meeting in Florida on Monday. "There are always different stress points. Free agency, that’s a crazy time, because you really don’t have any control and you don’t know what they’re doing on the other side. You don’t know how many teams are involved.
"So that’s a crazy time and now as we head into the draft, we’re picking a little further back. We’re picking 20. Who’s going to be there? Do we have to move up? Maybe we move back? All those scenarios come into play. The challenges are always ahead, no matter what.”
Challenges remain, but Denver has stability from ownership down to GM to head coach to quarterback for the first time since Manning retired. Stress remains -- it always does in the NFL -- but the Broncos certainly appear to be trending in the right direction going into the draft.
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This article originally appeared on Broncos Wire: Denver Broncos: Stress remains even after finding quarterback in 2024
