Thread: NFL draft: 4 positions the Broncos should target.

My early favorite for BF's annual overrated, short, slow, short-armed whitebread ILB is Ben Boulware.

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Boulware's a good call. I was thinking SDSU's Calvin Munson, but Boulware is more of a name. Good choice for our new ILB mascot for the next 4 months.

Denver needs to create a position within the personnel department titled OL Transformational Chief, devote extra resources to evaluating all available talent (FA and draft), and make it priority #1. Draft exclusively T, G, TE for all I care, unless extreme value appears at RB, ILB, NT, or returner.

Originally Posted by G_Money

Boulware's a good call. I was thinking SDSU's Calvin Munson, but Boulware is more of a name. Good choice for our new ILB mascot for the next 4 months.

Agreed, from what I've read I expect him to check in at a little over 5-11/240 and run somewhere in the 4.85 range. Im predicting 31" arms.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Denver needs to create a position within the personnel department titled OL Transformational Chief, devote extra resources to evaluating all available talent (FA and draft), and make it priority #1. Draft exclusively T, G, TE for all I care, unless extreme value appears at RB, ILB, NT, or returner.

Some serious outside-the-box thinking needs to be done, I agree. I read an NFL.com article that touched on the league-wide issues on the OL, one coach they talked to suggested a second practice for the backup OL. Something like that seems obvious, and no lineman should go without working daily on technique.

Look at the Broncos issues at RT, Stephenson let's DE much smaller than him truck him because it's too easy to get into his chest. He's getting his hands up around their neck, he's got 35" arms ffs, this should never happen. Sampro is supposedly the greatest athlete in the history of ever but he gets beat like a drum because he stops moving his feet, DE's are getting his edge two steps off the LOS, that is just embarrassing. I'm not close to being his biggest fan but even I can't remember him ever being this bad. Schofield might be the best athlete in terms of measurables and his struggles at RT have single-handedly put DE's in the Pro Bowl.

Their technique is atrocious, their communication isn't much better.

I think teams should carry no less than 9 OL on the active roster. Also, I would suggest a college OL coach might be a good idea, they're used to getting players ready to play with a very limited practice schedule. Harry Heistand from ND, look at the players he's put in the NFL and the sound fundamentals they play with. Ronnie Stanley in the '16 draft has just picture perfect form, Zach Martin and his brother, they also have two current players that may well be high draft picks. Dude must be doing something right.