B
Denver Broncos
The Broncos kept it disciplined and banked a B.
by Rhodes ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 3 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Eli Stowers, slot 84, roughly 28 picks past where he belonged.
They will need Randall to outplay his draft slot in a hurry to justify it. They punted on edge rusher, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the edge rusher spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
They robbed the room for Eli Stowers here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
They took Kyle Louis at par in the 89th overall pick, which is nothing to complain about. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Value with a capital V on Jalon Kilgore in the Round 4 slot, a genuine coup. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
DeMonte Capehart at Round 5, Pick 22 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
No drama and no debate, Travis Burke went about where he belonged in pick 170. It fills a real need, too.
Cole Payton in the 207th overall pick lands just on the right side of the ledger. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
No edge and no loss on Eli Heidenreich in slot 246; it is a wash and a sensible one. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
A big swing on Adam Randall at the 252nd pick, well ahead of any board in the building. A need, and now a little less of one.