who's working out? - prospect workouts

One that may surprise others is Roy Miller. I’m looking at a lot of poor values for NT if — as expected — we miss on Raji.

It looks like we could miss out on a good value at NT, and I’m far from sold on the mid-round prospects, so it’s sort of barren until we reach the late rounds and may then take some ‘flyers’ on prospects. My comments here have nothing to do with the fact that only two NTs have been worked out, which may be a coincidence.

Wood looks like a wonderful prospect for us, so I’m crossing my fingers and hope that they draft him.

The RBs are interesting. Lots of you will enjoy seeing Moreno on the list, but I’m more excited by the newer possibilities such as Brown. We haven’t really talked about him. We’ve talked a little more about Jennings, but that was back when I was hoping he’d fall all the way to the 4th.

The long list of OLBs/DEs is really interesting. The bigger names are interesting, but some lesser names that didn’t seem like obvious picks for us are quite intriguing. Role players, perhaps? Veikune? He showed some great rushing ability at the Senior, and the same could be said for Butler, who has been dismissed as a too slow, overachieving DE who couldn’t make the switch to OLB34 until he proved everyone wrong at the combine — at least as far as his speed.

The CBs are interesting, very interesting. Besides Jenkins, Barnes is someone I’ve just started paying closer attention to since his name came up in my MOCK.

The Safety, Vaughn, is someone I could see us drafting. The 2nd is the place to find one but we look like we may be working on our front seven at that point, and I expect he’ll still be there in the 3rd..

There’s some real surprises, and I’ll have to look up a few. Quinn, Riley? Can’t say I recall hearing of them.

I wouldn’t begin to presume to know what Denver is thinking with these looks, but DB is odd… I really think they are throwing out red herrings there, though i should note that I think the point of these workouts is to fill in the gaps on the scouting reports and combine interviews. I don’t put a lot of stock in them being major targets (though they could very well leave the meeting having had that effect), more like major questions. Also, there are a lot of players I think teams want to look at, but the players only have so many days to go around, and the teams only have so much time available for shopping, so the list gets pared down based on a lot fo factors.

But Chip and Barnes are just…odd…to see coming to Denver.

I think there is a misunderstanding among many fans on the significance of workouts. I have read several “league sources” (had to throw that in) who say that teams don’t bring in players because they want them. They bring in the players they are unsure of. For example, last year the Broncos didn’t bring in Clady because they were already sold on him. But they did bring in Williams (I think that was the kid from Vandy) because they weren’t sure.

If that’s true, we could discern a few things from these workouts:
1. The Broncos are possibly wondering if Raji really warrants a #12 pick. This makes sense since he has been all over the board;
2. If the Broncos can’t find a defensive player worth #12 (a real possibility) they make take a RB (SteveO will be pleased);
3. Since we couldn’t get Anderson from the Texans they are probably still looking at a mid-round WR;
4. Although we seem to already have too many hybrid LB/DE types they are looking at more – possibly hedging our bets; and finally
5. no surprise here, we will be looking for youth at DB whihc makes sense since our average back there is like 40 or something.

I never remember Denver bringing in so many prospects, which I think is a great thing, seems like we would fly in maybe two or three guys and then draft someone we had never talked to or met. I like this approach.

I appreciate you posting this. In the past Shanny rarely talked to the players he really wanted to draft. It will be interesting to see the new regimes approach.

We have found plugs for our holes. they are not stop gap as they were last year but plugs, players who can play and know their limitations. Now we need to find guys to set in the hole and “repair” the hole. I like Dawkins but he isn’t long term. I like the Rb stable but I only see two long term guys there, Plus Champ needs someone to fill in when he leaves and to be honest I don’t see Jack Williams or Josh Bell filling in on that side. I do think we have found our #2 (Williams) and Nickle (Bell) for years, but it will take some time to develop these boys and under the right tutelage and scheme they will excel. That said they need time. I don’t know who we will draft, I see some bright spots in this years draft but I see a lot more Role players than anything else! I am not going to judge McDaniels based on this year. I will give him two years to see how things pan out because you can not take a 24-24 team and just by the market like in the Madden Video Game.

We have found plugs for our holes. they are not stop gap as they were last year but plugs, players who can play and know their limitations. Now we need to find guys to set in the hole and “repair” the hole. I like Dawkins but he isn’t long term. I like the Rb stable but I only see two long term guys there, Plus Champ needs someone to fill in when he leaves and to be honest I don’t see Jack Williams or Josh Bell filling in on that side. I do think we have found our #2 (Williams) and Nickle (Bell) for years, but it will take some time to develop these boys and under the right tutelage and scheme they will excel. That said they need time. I don’t know who we will draft, I see some bright spots in this years draft but I see a lot more Role players than anything else! I am not going to judge McDaniels based on this year. I will give him two years to see how things pan out because you can not take a 24-24 team and just by the market like in the Madden Video Game.