Instant Reaction - Grade the Denver Broncos 2010 Draft Picks

yet I am not dissapointed by any means.

Day 2 here we come….

I didn’t like Tebow at 11, but we didn’t pick him at 11.

Is it round 2 yet?

but considering the way they maneuvered from 11 to 23 while getting two players they wanted, I gave Denver a B.

Let see we drafted Demaryius Thomas = who could be very solid WR but still downgrade from Brandon Marshall.

Then we draft Tim Tebow that many NFL Scouts say won’t make it in the NFL.

God I miss Mike Shannahan.

The trades with SF and PHI were genius! We have a great WR and very special person and plenty of picks to address needs!

They took my guy in the first round, so obviously I’m very pleased. Demaryius Thomas is going to be a great receiver in this league. I had no idea we were looking at him, so that just goes to show you. Wouldn’t mind pairing him up with Arrelious Benn tomorrow.

A for the Broncos

We all knew there would be surprises and the Broncos FO certainly didn’t disappoint in that category. Pouncey wasn’t the target everyone was so ecited about and I tried to tell you that we may have our OLine the house and we don’t even realize it. I still look for JD Walton or Matt Tennant to climb on board though and maybe Ducasse. I would love to see Gerhart come to run over Eric Berry and his bad little self… Other than that, I am stoked!!!

Still think Tebow’s overvalued like I said, but I’m ready for them to prove me wrong.

The trades made and the WR taken keep this from dropping into negativity. Draft grades are a crapshoot anyway…I’m probably going to be dead wrong. Also, the grade is nowhere near finished…there’s still more to come and hopefully this grade will get up there for me. I did like the moves to get picks in a draft as deep as this.

Grade – A

I gave it a C.

I’m semi-okay with the players themselves, but not so excited about their positions.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSH MCDANIELS!!!!

What do you think McD has in store for Tebow in his rookie year? Set package as an H-back/wildcat?

Not that it was Thomas as our first pick, but that it was WR that reminded the Coach of Marshall. Why didnt he keep Marshall and use his number one for another need? This is more about McD and his problems with Marshall than he wants to admit. Im still trying to understand this coach. Its obvious that if you screw with him you will be out the door no questions asked. Denver will take a loss if you cross the coach.

does anyone know if there is a D. Thomas Interview video?

I Love the Tebow pick and the Thomas pick. Let us see a former Heisman trophy winner and two time national champion is a fifth round talent. How about this Prisco. YOU ARE A NO TALENT HACK. YOU WILL BE FIRED LONG BEFORE MCDANIELS!!!

Personally, I didn’t like the pick. But, I like the move. Most 1st round picks are thrown to the wolves before they are ready. It could be a reason for the low success rate of 1st round QBs. Most good teams won’t take a talented qb to develope, rather they get second tier guys and try to develope those. Sometimes it works and sometimesa it don’t. I like this move to get a talented player that doesn’t have to be thrown to the wolves.

Butler or Spikes?

Tennant or Walton?

Ducasse or Johnson?

Troup or Cody?

Benn or Decker?

Gerhart?

Is it in next year’s draft, cause we didn’t get one for Saturday

Everybody kept talking about what a deep draft this is and there are guys that will go in the 2nd round that would have been 1st rounders last year. So I was actually excited how McD moved back twice and stock piled middle round picks in this very deep draft. And then to give 3 of them away to move up and take Tebow was a bit of a let down after I was cheering McD on for the earlier stock piling. McD has now hand picked 4 QBs in two years, he better have his guy now. However, if it takes 2-3 years for this 1st round QB to see the field, I hope we win in the next two years or McD may not be around to see the fruits of his labor. I do think we will have decent seasons and McD will be around, but it is a bit of a risk for him.

I think every team in the AFC West made fantastic picks today

Although I’m not going negative on Teebow.

I was extremely excited when I saw us sitting on SF’s pick, thinking we were going to get Pouncey. Then when we traded back, thinking we were cleverly loading up on 3rd rounders and Dan Williams still on the board. I thought, “We are going to come away in this draft with a big haul.”

I thought we’ve got 6 picks in the top 84!!!! In such a deep draft, I was salivating.

There is a reason Ozzie Newsome is Ozzie Newsome. And he showed it again tonight.

I pray I am wrong and that Thomas can learn to run routes and that his hands will improve.

I’m stuck between B and B+. It has the potential to be an A though.
I guess Tebow is McD’s MF Birthday present to himself. =)

Right now, I think it was a great first round. Solid solid WR pick, and then Tebow. As of right now, I am pumped about the Tebow pick, and I am still pretty skeptical about his prospects as an NFL QB. The fact is that he was by far the riskiest QB pick in the draft, but has by far the highest ceiling. The guy was probably in the top 5 greatest college players in history. He has the intangibles to be a HOF quarterback. And I’m not talking about him being a good guy. In terms of knowing how to win (something Jay Cutler severely lacked), overall leadership, and passion the guy is a stud and possibly Hall of Fame-like. And honestly, I think that the media grew tired of Tebow and hearing how amazing he was, and started to nitpick on stuff like his mechanics. Sam Bradford, from what I have seen, has a worse release point than Tebow. If the so-called experts weren’t so negative on Tebow, everyone would be ecstatic. I mean the guy won two national championships and set all kinds of offensive records. Will he be a good NFL QB? I don’t know. There is a chance that he will be a bust. And if he is, we have Kyle Orton and Brady Quinn. But there is also a chance that he will be a probowler and lead us to Super Bowls. The signs are there for both. We’ll see, but I think that it was incredibly risky, but a very good risk to take. That’s my 2 cents.

If so…does Thomas get #6?

Just asking.

Up until the Tebow trade I would of graded it an A, but we have bigger needs that we could of addressed with that trade (Williams or Odrick) that could of had an immediate impact. I think we again fell in love with a player that likely would of been available in the 2nd round and we could of not spent so a high cost for a luxury of trying to develop a 1st round QB.

The thing I like most about Tebow is how hard he works.

Players with an astounding amount of talent but little sense to work on it always find a way to flame out.

But a player with average talent but an astounding work-ethic will always find a way to contribute to his team.

Disregarding all his talent and other intangibles, Tim Tebow is already a winner.

I love the D Thomas pick. I thank God Broncos didn’t pick Dez Bryant and think this wideout is a real steal where they got him. I am less enthused about the Tebow pick. not necessarily taking him, but giving up 2nds and moving up that high when they had other very clear areas of need. That said I think Tebow could be an exciting addition to the team and it may not pay off for another year or so.

Anyway so I give the Thomas pick an A- and Tebow a B- (leaning towards incomplete since I still don’t know quite what to think about his future. I have to put my trust in Broncos personnel.) I look forward to tomorrow though which imho will make or break this draft.

I’m not crazy about the idea of having four QBs on the roster. Perhaps Brandstater will be cut, or perhaps Orton will be even more valuable by the end of the season and McD will trade him for picks.

After being content with the QBs on our roster, I’m not happy with the Tebow selection so high, especially since he’s a project. Hopefully, in 2 years I will be excited to have him on our team. But for now, I feel like the pick could’ve been used on Odrick or had we not traded 4 times, we could’ve taken Weatherspoon.

The D. Thomas pick (although he needs to be coached up) will pay off dividends in the future. I like this pick.

Wow. After last year’s draft and reading the mocks, there are a bunch of you that could do a better job than McD and the Brain Surgeons. I thought that they were trying to set a record for the most meaningless trades in the first round. I guess when they couldn’t find any Stone Handed Tight ends and Slow CBs to trade a first 2 seconds and a 4th for (they could probably also have gotten 6 7th rounders in return as well) they just traded up to take Tebow – who they might have gotten by staying at 42 – and if they didn’t so what?

The Thomas pick was OK but I didn’t expect to have a WTF moment in the first round. Jeesh we even got out picked by the Raiders. At least they got demonstrably better. “I just get really nervous when spending Daddy’s money” I am disappointed to say that it is still amateur hour down at Dove Valley.

McD is a liar, we are NOT trying to win now. If he had confidence in Orton we would have gone all pro center at #13 to bolster the running game, I feel really bad for Bailey, Bdawk, KnowMo. I don’t care if the bills are vikes were going to get him….we paid ALOT in a deep draft for Tebow. AM I still a bronco fan, ofcourse, but damn it’s not very fun anymore. McD is a REACHER, not all that different from the raiders, ya, I said it.

The point is a team that was lucky to be 8 and 8 and traded away it’s proven play makers needs to use their high draft choices to get better now, not for a vanity project that will pan out in 2013, if at all. I counted at least 4 players who could start for us that were available even after we traded to 13 but these guys got cute and screwed it up again. I cut them slack for last year’s impulsive moves, but now it’s looking like a trend.

I just feel sorry for the guy who comes in to coach this team in a couple of years and inherits this mismatched group of bizzare draft choices and has to start over – again.

Trading: great
Tebow: risky, great upside
Thomas: risky, great upside

I think the main problem is possibly opportunity cost. Who could we have gotten instead?

I don’t think we could have gotten two 1st-round picks if one of them had been Pouncey or Iupati.

As for me, I really think intangibles matter. You take a highly skilled quarterback without any intangibles, and you’ve got Orton. Orton’s got everything except for that ability to extend plays, make something out of nothing, and assert his will on the game.

Tebow has shown all those abilities. On top of that, he’s a huge athlete. On top of that, he’s shown an ability to learn, and an attitude of being willing to apply himself. If you’re going for a risky high-upside pick, that’s the attitude you want. Honestly, I think this guy is going to be a superstar, possibly the biggest star for Denver since Elway. And he’ll never be mistaken for being a “next Elway” because he’s so different. That’s perfect.

In last year’s draft, a lot of folks were staunchly declaring that we absolutely had to draft defensive linemen. We drafted exactly 1.

Yet our defense rose from 30th in points and 29th in yards in 2008 to 12th in points and 7th in yards.

This year lots of folks have been staunchly declaring that we absolutely must draft offensive linemen.

Anyone else seeing a pattern here?

B+ for Thomas, F for Tebow.

Thomas filled a need, and he was probably the best player available where the Broncos picked him.

Tebow was a little boy’s pick: McDaniels could not seem to get the stars out of his eyes long enough to realize he needed help on the lines, especially the O-line. (Shades of Bobby Anderson.) The Broncos have a good young QB by the name of Kyle Orton. They need to support him with a better cast. I fully expect Tebow to warm the bench behind Orton as long as Orton chooses to play here . . . unless Orton is jettisoned because of Tebow’s draft status, ala Brees/Rivers. Problem is, Tebow is not as good as Rivers . . .

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pass the Kool-aid Bronco fans.

I think McX wheeling and dealing to pick up more draft picks which allowed us to get Tebow was superb.
Thomas and Tebow have the potential to be great players in the NFL and I love that McX have had the balls to come out and go for it.
I loved the reaction of Tebow to the pick this guy is definitely the type of man you want on this football team.
The reason I have not given it an A is because there are obviously some concerns whether both players can be top NFL players but let us sit back and enjoy the journey because its going to be exciting.

I gave the draft a B so far because of Tebow. He’s a great guy, but we just traded for a young QB two weeks before we drated a QB in the 1st. I think Thomas is a great pick up. Huge upside and he is the big, physical receiver we need across from Gaffney and Royal/ Stokley.

Total and abject failure.

Although a shocking first round, I think it will pay off big time eventually. How can you fans out there NOT like this pick when you look at what Tebow has to offer? Nobody has a drive to succeed like this guy. Dedication, drive, willpower, talent….the kid has it all. Yeah, he’s raw, but so what. What college QB isn’t raw coming out, I mean come on! But one of the biggest things we should be excited about is that apparently Tebow’s learning curve – due to his drive and dedication – is shorter than other QB’s so I believe he will be starting sooner rather than later. He will be the Broncos starting QB going into next year.

And another question: How many of you fans who have been either lukewarm or haters of Orton are complaining about this pick? I’d like to know your reasons why, honestly. If you are so convinced Orton sucks how can you criticize this pick at all? The Broncos drafted one of the highest rated QB’s in round 1, what more do you freakin’ want??

And the Thomas pick looks very solid. I’m relieved they took him rather than Dez.

I have to admit that the Tebow pick took me off guard. Right when his name was called I got an emergency call from work. Too much reality too soon.

I have bought into the conventional wisdom that he’s not ready. McD is nothing but conventional, we can all agree on that now. But as David St. Hubbins once said in Spinal Tap: ’There’s a fine line between clever and stupid". That sums up McD for me; he’s really walking that line.

However, listening to Gruden talk about him made me feel a little better.

I gave the 1st round a C. Lots of raw talent, much remains to be seen. …Future cloudy…

If we pick up a C/G, ILB, and power RB tonight I’ll be ok with everything.

Same here, the shock is wearing off…….just like any other McDaniels moves, I just have to and wait how things will play out before I completely judge.

So frustrating, but ah well. Sports isn’t always instant gratification.