The Denver Broncos Take a Risk by Drafting Demaryius Thomas and Tim Tebow in the First Round!

Posted by By Sports Session at 23 April, at 13 : 45 PM Print

Watching the NFL draft last night you knew there would be several surprises, and moves made by many teams.  In this day and age you generally know how the first five picks are going to go because of the media and inside sources, so once those are out of the way things start to get a bit more interesting.

But the odd picks started to come later in the draft.  We will focus on the Denver Broncos even though the Eagles moved up to get a defensive end, when the best player available was a need at Safety that they passed up on.  Before we get to the Broncos I also have to mention that San Diego moved up almost ten spots to take a running back, they could have re-signed LaDanian Tomlinson cheaply or even grabbed a Thomas Jones.

The Chargers instead elect to go into the season with undersized Darren Sproles and a Rookie Running Back out of Fresno State?  We will see how all of that pans out for them, pass protection is one of the most important jobs of a running back and entrusting that to a rookie seems like a mistake.

Now on to the Broncos, they selected Georgia Tech Wide Receiver Demaryius Thomas with the 22^nd pick.  Now he was expected to fall to the Jets about 29^th and be taken after Dez Bryant, instead he is the first Wide Receiver selected in the draft.  I was personally hoping he would fall to the Jets as I think he is a sleeper pickup, and will turn out to be dominant.

I think he would have still been available later in the draft, but they came up to get him.  The part that is odd was Broncos coach Josh McDaniel saying he picked him because he reminded him of Brandon Marshall.  Wait, did he just say that the receiver he just drafted reminded him of the receiver he just traded to the Miami Dolphins?

I do not see the logic here; Brandon Marshall has been the best receiver in the NFL the past three seasons.  He has three consecutive 100 reception seasons under his belt, and you draft a receiver because he reminds you of the guy you just traded?  I am sure things could have been worked out with Marshall, you do not trade a pro bowl receiver with talent like that and hope to get a guy in the draft that will be like him.  Lighting rarely strikes in the same place twice.

The 25^th pick of the Broncos was Tim Tebow, how they decided that Tebow was worthy of a first round pick is beyond me.  They have Kyle Orton in house who is not old, and had a decent season last year 21 touchdowns to only 12 interceptions.  You do not draft a wildcat quarterback with your first round pick; Tebow is not a polished passer and even though he has a “new” throwing motion it will take time for that to be natural for him.

They said the same thing about David Carr when he was drafted, they were going to get him to hold the ball up near his chest instead of near his waist when he dropped back to pass.  Well that did not work out well, and now Carr is a journeyman backup who has played for several teams.

I know that McDaniels is attempting to make some kind of statement about character over everything else, but he is taking a big leap in putting his coaching future on the shoulders of Tebow.  I have talked about this to friends many times there are a lot of cases where talent needs to be taken over character, if you can find a guy who has both great.

If Tim Tebow is starting in a few years and he turns out to be a bust, do you think Denver fans will really care if he is a great guy?  Fans want to see wins, that is why they spend their money to come to the games, if a guy has good character and turns out to be a great player that is the best scenario.  But if he is unable to hit receivers, and does not consistently win games he will not be able to lead effectively.

The pick does not make much sense to me, but I have to assume that Josh McDaniels is an NFL coach for a reason while I am running a website.  Maybe he knows what he is doing, and has a master plan for Mr. Tebow.  Only time will tell how this works out.

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