If Knowshon Moreno had 1st round talent there's something wrong with your grading system, the rest of the '09 class isn't worth the bandwidth.
DT was a huge risk that high, he was well on his way to being drafted too high before Broncos fixed their QB situation, and to compound this risk he took the same risk on Decker in the 3rd. Walton and Beadles just plain sucked and would have been replaced long ago had the Broncos not been so pass heavy.
To be brutally honest, we're grading all these draft picks entirely different if the Broncos never sign a Manning and bring in a legitimate NFL coaching staff. Most of Doogie's draft picks sucked and those that did not were damn near ruined by the ridiculous environment he put them in.
Had they given McDaniels another season this woulda been even worse, dude was world class incompetent and dysfunctional to boot, he wasn't even much good at what supposedly got him hired in the first place.
"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB