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Welcome back to it Brocos Country tonight. I managamin all right here with you.

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Thanks for Ryan Edwards for joining me
in the last segment. Talk a

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little bit about a quarterback situation,
you know, their view on trading up

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versus trading back or waiting or whatever
else. I always appreciate it when Leog

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gets a chance to come back and
do a little bit of the show,

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and certainly appreciate his time in doing
that. Five six six nine zero is

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the text line. I know.
I promised you guys, promised you guys

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a mock draft, So we're going
to do that here. In just a

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moment, I wanted to I'm going
to try and do this through the lens

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of what I more of what I
think would happen than what I want to

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happen. So I am I'm looking
at this as as an exercise in which

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we're trying to predict things rather than
here's what I would like to happen.

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And I think it's important to make
that distinction because some people's mock drafts are

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simply them. They simply wish fulfillment
or wishful thinking or things like that.

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So I wanted to. I wanted
to preface it with that, I think

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we all know who's going first.
I don't think that's a surprise for anybody.

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I don't really need to sit here
and debate a reason with Caleb Williams

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going number one overall to the Chicago
Bears. To me, it doesn't.

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It just doesn't. It doesn't make
sense to belabor that point. It would

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be an a the biggest upset of
all time if that did not occur.

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Everybody I've talked to in the league
is believed that was what was going to

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happen for months. The Bears sort
of tipped their hand when they were shopping

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justin fields around the time of the
Senior Bowl. I think at the end

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of the day, the idea that
that that is is set in stone as

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you as you can be, almost
like when Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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So I don't want to belabor that. So I it picked one.

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Obviously, we have Caleb Williams go
to the Bears at picked two. I

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still have Jaden Daniels going to the
Washington Commanders. I know the betting odds

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have changed a little bit. I
know some people have talked up the Drake

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May thing. I've had Jayden Daniels
there for a while and that that's that's

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just kind of who I have there. I think he's a better dual threat

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guy. I think he gives Cliff
Kingsbury something. He's a little bit more

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accustomed to. Kingsbury obviously helped,
you know, Manzielle win the twenty twelve

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Heisman. Kyler Murray was his handpicked
guy, another Heisman winner when he you

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guys started Arizona. To me,
it just it just kind of rings true

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here that Jayden Daniels is a little
bit more more of a fit for what

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Cliff has traditionally done. Now,
does that mean that he won't take Drake

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may or JJ McCarthy. No,
I believe that this is a Jaden Daniels

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or Drake may pick here. I
don't think McCarthy's really in play. But

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none of the three would would stun
me. I would be mildly surprised if

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it was anyone other than Daniels,
if it was mayor McCarthy. But we'll

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sort of see. Pick three is
where it starts to get interesting in this

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draft, because does New England take
the quarterback? Does New England trade out

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of three and if they do trade
out of three, who do they trade

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with. Recent rumor has the New
York Giants potentially wanting a quarterback, And

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I've talked to people up there,
and I will say that if a quarterback

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falls to them at six, I
would be stunned if they didn't take them.

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I don't think a quarterback will fall
to them at six, but if

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a quarterback falls to six, I
would be stunned if the Giants didn't take

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them. Do I believe they'll trade
up. I don't. I don't believe

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they'll trade up. So that leaves
you with a couple other options. You've

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had some people talking about the Raiders
and everything I've talked to. Everybody I've

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talked to over there does not believe
they're trading up. The Broncos and the

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Vikings would be the other two teams. The Vikings already pick one slot ahead

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of the Broncos. They've also got
an additional first rounder. Broncos don't even

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have a second in this draft,
so the Vikings certainly have more ammunition to

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be able to move up. The
question is whether or not New England makes

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that pick or they trade it at
three. I do believe that Minnesota is

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okay with more than one quarterback.
I believe that while they are poised to

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move up, I believe that there
are three of these four quarterbacks they would

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be happy with. Caleb Williams is
not going to be there, so scratch

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that one off the list. So
the question here becomes, does New England

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pick at three or does Minnesota trade
up. Some recent reporting has Elliott Wolf

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being a big fan of JJ McCarthy. I think that New England will stay

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put. I thought they would trade
it. I go back and forth on

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this. I say that I think
they'll state, but I go back and

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forth. This is truly a coin
flip for me, because everybody I talked

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to at the Senior Bowl was adamant
believing that New England was going to trade

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out, and every report at the
time was, Oh, they're not moving,

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They're stay and blah blah blah.
I've got I've sort of started going

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the other way that they might stay, and now the reporting is going the

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other way they might move, and
it's just sort of interesting to me.

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I believe that Drake may or JJ
McCarthy will be the pick here. The

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question is who's going to be making
the pick. So in this particular scenario,

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we keep New England staying put and
making this election, and we'll give

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them Drake May at three. That
causes the Minnesota Vikings to pull the trigger

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with the Arizona Cardinals at four and
come up and get JJ McCarthy, and

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that puts at number five the Los
Angeles Chargers on the clock. Now,

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I've been told that the Chargers would
like to trade back. I believe that.

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I believe that in their first year
they'd like to multiply draft capital.

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I've been told that the Chargers like
receivers and a specifically offensive lineman, and

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I think they want to go offensive
line early. They want somebody who's nasty,

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somebody who could finish. And I
would not be surprised to see them

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willing to move back. And in
fact, in this particular projection, I'm

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going to have Arizona move back up. They moved down from four to eleven.

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I'm going to have them move back
up to five with the Chargers and

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have the Arizona Cardinals select Marvin Harrison
Junior, first non quarterback off the board.

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I know they need receiving hell,
I know they love Harrison. At

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number six, the Giants, who
may have had some internal hopes that a

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quarterback would slip to them, had
those dashed by Minnesota's trade up, but

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are more than happy to select the
wide receiver from LSU elite Neighbors at six

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Neighbors may have the highest ceiling of
any wide receiver in this draft, even

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if Harrison is a bit more polished. That brings us to the Tennessee Titans

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and what I think would be the
first offensive lineman off the board in Joe

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Alt. We talked a little bit
about the Chargers being on offensive line,

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and I liked the Chargers on offensive
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the Chargers think that Joe Alt is
the top guy, but the Titans,

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well, he fits the mold of
a Callahan tackle, and with Brian Callahan

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as the new head coach there and
his dad Bill on the offensive line,

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I would be very surprised if it
wasn't Joe Alt. You've got a deep

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receiver class. The Titans can go
back and get receivers later. Pick A

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is the Atlanta Falcons. Everybody I've
talked to there expects that to be an

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edge rusher. The question is whether
or not that would be Dallas Turner or

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Jared Verse, and I think that
Verse has some explosiveness and power to him.

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But just the people I've talked to
expect Dallas Turner more to be the

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pick there at this point. Again, we're three weeks out from the draft.

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Things can change, but we're doing
this top twelve moc here having some

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fun with it. I'll give the
Falcons the edge rusher at number nine.

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The Chicago Bears making their second selection
inside the top ten. This is their

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actual own, their own pick.
Obviously, with pick number one they had

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Carolinas picking that deal from last year. That couldn't have worked out better for

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Chicago if they tried. And I
think after adding Keenan Allen DJ Moore,

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I think you go ahead and make
your own triplets there in Chicago and you

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draft Row Madonzay. He's a great
route runner, he's a good contested catch

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guy. Remind you a little of
Cordless Sudden. Keenan Allen's not going to

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be there for a long period of
time, but he's a great veteran wide

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receiver, shallow cross guy to have. And now all of a sudden,

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that Bears offense looks dangerous. He
gets some offensive line help, which they

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need little bit later, but that
offense looks looks dangerous. All of a

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sudden, a Bears team that has
been something that people pick as an easy

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win doesn't look like it's necessarily as
easy to win anymore. And I'm sure

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that KAYLEB Williams will have his growing
pains, But having a starting three receivers

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of DJ Moore, Keenan Allen Roemdoonze, you got DeAndre Swift and Khalil Herbert

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as your running backs, Cole Comett
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All of a sudden, that offense
looks legit, and that defense was looking

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legit down the stretch last year.
Once they added Montese Sweat, that defense

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looked like it could be something that'd
be interesting to see how they continue to

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build off that. At pick ten
with the New York Jets, I think

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brock Bowers, I think everybody's pretty
much got that one circled. They addressed

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their offensive line and free agency,
they can really kind of go best player

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available, and I think brock Bowers
he is probably that They added Morgan Moses,

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Tyron Smith, and John Simpson along
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They grabbed Tyrod Taylor as a backup
quarterback. They added Mike Wiiams from the

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Chargers to go with Garrett Wilson Xavier
Gibson. I think the only area where

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it's probably subpar is that tight end
room where you look at Zach Koontz,

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Kenny Yoba, Jeremy Ruckert, and
Tyler Conklin. You had Brock Bowers in

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there, and Aaron Rodgers has his
pick of the litter, and that makes

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that offense pretty dangerous as well.
Arizona Cardinals who had traded up or traded

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back excuse me, to eleven originally
eleven below the Vikings. The Cardinals had

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traded back, then they traded back
up with the Chargers, so the Chargers

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would be picking it at eleven in
this scenario. And I think it comes

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down to a question of which offensive
lineman. Do you take the kid from

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Penn State Vashanu or do you take
Alabama's JC Latham. These are or is

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an interesting choice to me. Now, I don't know which direction they would

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go, but I'm gonna pencil Fashanu
in there. Even though I like Latham

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for what they want to do,
I don't think they can go wrong.

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Either way, and that would bring
you to the Denver Broncos at twelve.

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And I think if it plays out
like that, I think you really have

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probably two choices. Do you go
with the corner, whether that's Quinnon Mitchell

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or Terry in Armstead, or do
you trade back, because I think you

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can trade back off twelve and put
yourself back at nineteen with the Rams who

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need an edge rusher, and you
can grab yourself some additional draft capital.

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So in this particular case, I'm
going to have the Broncos trade back to

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nineteen with the Rams, get pick
up some additional draft capital, and the

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Rams grab Jared Verse, and the
Broncos are sitting there looking at probably trading

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down again off nineteen as they try
to play the board a little bit.

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You could probably at nineteen have an
edge rusher like Latu Full in your lap.

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You might still have a shot at
the corner there and Terry and Arnold

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or Quinyan Mitchell. Depending on how
the board falls between thirteen and nineteen,

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you might have teams trading up to
get offensive linemen. If Latham or Faltanu

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from Washington are there, you got
the kid from Oregon State, that'll be

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in that mix. Vuaga. You
got edge rusher Chop Robinson still out there,

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Adarius Mims the tackle out of Jargia. I think there are any number

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of scenarios in which the Broncos could
trade back twice in the first round,

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come away with a bevy of draft
picks, and still get the guy they

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want. Tell me what you think
five six, six, nine zero.

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