Denver Broncos FULL 7-Round 2026 NFL Mock Draft After Jaylen Waddle Trade

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Welcome back to with the first pick with the combine and free agency behind us on the draft

just around the corner. It's time for the perfect draft for the Denver Broncos. I'm Ryan Wilson.

That's former Titans GM, Ryan Carthon, and Ryan before we get going,

usually I like to ask Broncos fans what they think their teams biggest need is post-free agency

pre draft, but we got to start with this. Jalen Waddle is moonwalking his way from South Beach

over to the Colorado Rockies. And if you're listening here to the trade details,

Jalen Waddle, 2026 fourth round pick headed to Denver and the dolphins get a 2026 first round

pick from Denver. That's a 30th overall pick. In addition to 2026 third and fourth rounder,

Ryan, my initial reaction is this feels a little rich if you're the Broncos, but it's also the

only the 30th pick and then the subsequent late round picks and rounds three and four. And you're

getting so much needed juice on the outside. So how do you feel about this trade?

Yeah, like you said, I think, and I think just the aesthetic of three picks going

on feels like a lot, but if you're the Denver Broncos, you may feel like you're only one piece

away. Right. And so what is that one piece causing? And what is that? How do you value that one piece?

And so we've all said it. I think we've been talking about it all season that the Denver Broncos

needed a vertical field stretcher. And so they're definitely getting this in Jalen Waddle. We've seen

Sean Peyton's history of having guys like this, the speed guys that he's had, the Robert

Meachams, the Devery Henderson's, you know, just all the different guys, Ted Ginn, they went and

got Ted Ginn during his tenure in New Orleans. And so having that guy in his office really

opposite up for him. Because right now it's Coral and Sutton, a little Jordan Humphries,

they brought back Troy Franklin, who they drafted a few years ago. And Pat Bryant, the third

round pick from a year ago to Illinois, who is a big target, but he's not a burner.

They do have Marvin Mims, but he's never been a number one or a number two, maybe two and a half

or three to half. It would be honest, but where he was on the depth chart. So Jalen Waddle is the

immediate game changer. He's undersized, but he gets open. And that will make no doubt.

Bonyx's job light easier. All right. The Broncos had the 30s pick. Now they just have

seven picks in the draft. And we are starting with pick 62. So this changes everything.

Let me ask you this, Rand, if you're this far along having your draft meetings and then

middle of March, you trade your first round pick, how do you reorganize,

reshuffle, re whatever your draft meetings or just business as usual, you're just not picking 30s

anymore. Yeah, I don't think this I don't think this changes anything because you approached

everything from the start understanding that this was a possibility for you. Okay.

And so you these conversations just didn't happen yesterday or this morning. These conversations

were probably initiated at the combine. So you kind of knew heading into it that this was a

possibility and what you could give up. So I mean, it's business as usual. By the way, before

this deal was was consummated, the Broncos were the only team that and I felt that had not signed

or traded for an external free agent. They just brought back their own guys. And part because

their own guys are really good. And also they were working to get this jail and bottle thing done

it apparently. So that is no longer the case, but an interesting side note prior to jail and

bottle heading to Denver. Pick 62 is now upon us. They don't need a wide receiver.

Tide ends still in the conversation. They brought back Alex Singleton and Justin Sternub,

a linebacker could begin the mix. They brought back JK Dobbins maybe running back.

They lost Sean Franklin Myers, maybe defensive line. Not a ton of needs for a really good

football team, which explains why they moved off of some of those picks to get played

make it to the water. But what do you think in here at pick 62? Yeah, just looking at looking at

this list. I mean, you look at the top of the list right now, Jadarian price. You know, again,

you you bring back JK Dobbins. You still have RJ Harvey. So it's the where's the where the rep's

going to come for Jadarian price. I still think they they need a corner personally to play opposite

of PS2. You know, Raleigh gets targeted a lot and he gets a ton of penalties thrown his way.

And he's in the final year of his rookie deal as well. Yeah, and I can't see them probably bringing

him back at a at an extremely high rate. What what would you think here at corner?

Sorry, I got IGB is there. David Dick Vanosson who plays outside. I would ask they have to take

on McMillan who's a really good player. But I would ask you what you think about the idea of

trade on Stukes, who's a nickel-backed Arizona, but his six feet tall ran the four fours. I think

he has outside ability. And then you get the versatility of outside inside. Now they draft the

Jadarian last year as well, who's who plays. Yeah. So you do have Jaday, who they have to give an

opportunity to. So right. So that then the question becomes, do you want to back to back years

with your first pick being, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm just doing good working

through the math. The other thing I would throw out there. Let me throw this out there. Let's look

and tight in as well. And while we do that, Josiah Trotter, Jeremiah Trotter's son, is available.

And he is, I think, one of the best off-ball linebackers in this class after the handful of guys

we've talked about the death going back to the fall. So that could be consideration as well,

but it tied in. We have Max Claire, Sam Roosh out of Stanford. Michael Trigg is insanely athletic

as it's Justin Jolie. I like Justin Jolie a little better. I think he's a little bit of a

route runner. You're a guy more on climb out of Michigan. There are a ton of dudes that can ball out.

Troy Roy, you're out of Cincinnati. And what about, let's look at linebacker.

My guy, Josiah Trotter, it's going to be at the top. And then who else we got?

Kyle Lewis, Anthony Hill Jr. Still there. I know you like out of Texas, Giante Lawson,

Bryce Betcher. The baseball player turned football player at Oregon. I mean, this, oh,

there's so many, so many tied in, excuse me, tied in so many linebackers that can play.

I'm looking at my rankings.

Let's go. I like Trotter better than Hill, but you, I think you like Hill a little better than

the night. Yeah, let's go Anthony Hill Jr. Okay. And that's not, I mean, that's, that's not a bad

choice at all. Just getting athletes. Next up, pick 108. And Michael Trigg is still there. Let's

talk about Michael Trigg quickly. You and I talked about him over in the fall when he was catching

passes from a guy, Sawyer Robertson. I've said it before. I'll repeat it. While the athleticism

is through the roof, I don't think he's better than JT Sanders, who the panther shaft out of Texas.

I believe in the fourth round. Athletic, you know, big thing that's going to hold Michael Trigg back

is everyone's concerned about the off the field. That was even getting to that. I think that's

what's going to hold people back. Looking at this, and this is where we have to roll the dice

because, and I'm looking at two names in particular. Again, I don't know, and maybe PFF is right,

but in every one of these we've done the anti-lossing has been available in the fourth round. I don't

see him going in the fourth round personally. But then also looking at this and seeing Carson back

available and understanding where the Denver Broncos finish, you won game away from the Super Bowl,

when you had to play with your back a quarterback that couldn't get it done.

Okay, we've had this conversation. You do have a pick three picks later because the dolphins

as well. So you might go, yeah, so that's where I'm going. We got 108 and 111. Do you take the

anti-loss and hope that Carson back is there or do you take Carson back being that is the quarterback

and then you look for. So are we going to pull us and Saturday Bengals and take two linebackers

in this class? You say what? We're going to pull the Bengals and take two linebackers off all

that. I mean, it's the best available player. I get it. I'm just asking the other thing with Carson

back, what's the conversation? If any, are you having with your young quarterbacks on his

rookie deal, who's your starter to prepare? Hold on one more time. Are you talking about Nick

and saying, hey, we're going to draft a quarterback in Round 3? Yeah, it's a backup. He knows he's

the starter. Okay, I want to make sure that we're all on the same page. I'm Bo Nick's agent. I'm

want to make sure that you're not trying to pull the rug out from under my guy. Your strategy here,

quarterback and then see who's a vet. Let's go, let's go Carson back. Oh, wait, hold on now.

I find if you think the anti-loss and he's going to contribute, I'm fine going to

anti-loss and if you're if that's your best available and that's the guy you want to target.

Well, let's go, let's go Carson back. Okay. All right. And get the quarterback and because the

anti-loss isn't that big of an end boom, he's still there for us at 1-11. Okay. So it worked.

All right. So when you I'll be the GM, you're the assistant GM, but I'm going to make you go talk

to the media. When the media asks you why are we taking two linebackers and a quarterback with

the first three picks, what are you saying? Because I'm saying these were the best available players,

these are players that we had highly rated. Yep. And we didn't expect a guy like the anti-loss

and it'd be available to us. Okay. Thank you for taking that one for the team because I don't

want to go down there to the media room. You subjected to those ski those jackals. Next up,

pick one. What is this 168? All right. Here we go. This is the pick four of six.

Pick four. Sorry. Okay. What's next? So we still have an address tight in. Let's see what

tight ends are available. So my guy, Josh, Quavis is still there out of Alabama.

Tanner Coseal is a good player out of Houston. How much do you like Oscar Delt?

He wasn't used a lot. We talked to our guy, Raleigh Noel Calc, he's more of an H back super smart guy.

He wasn't used a lot for some reason, but he's a good athlete and I think his best football is

ahead of him. And if this were where we're going to take him here 168, this feels I have no

issue doing that because the athleticism is there. He's a great teammate, good dude in the locker room.

And if you throw in the ball, he's going to catch it and he has he has the acability. So I

you said and you're talking Riley talking Delp. Delp. Yeah. Riley's more of an H back. He'll

block for you if that's what you're looking for. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go Oscar Delp here.

Yeah. I think Riley will be be available without later picks here. Now we're getting to

around seven. We have three picks and then we have the last two picks in real life. Maybe not in

the strapped here, but that's the case here. All right. I say we just keep drafting quarterback.

Taylor Green is still there. I'm kidding. All right. Hey, so we got to tie it in.

I didn't say that because the first one that jumped off to my eye was Cole Peyton because you

talked about him being what's my guy at New Orleans. Yeah, it tastes. Oh, that's interesting.

Now he doesn't want to be known as Taysum Hill and that he thinks he's the quarterback.

And I think he's right, but he is athletic. That's fair enough. But athletically,

Cole Peyton can do some things. He rushed for North of 700 yards last year in North Dakota

state. So he can do that when he's asked to. And of course, you know how much Sean Peyton looked

Taysum Hill. Sean Peyton ain't calling plays though. According to Sean Peyton,

Stavis Webb. So we shall see for now for now how long that lasts. So we got our linebackers.

We got our backup quarterback. And Broncos fans, let me know we think about Carson back

as your backup quarterback. And I would qualify that by saying, remember how you felt when

the quarterback was thrust into the situation he wasn't prepared. Not that he wasn't prepared,

but he hadn't played a lot of football and it didn't go the way you wanted him to go.

So the chiefs had the same issue. So I think it's important to have a backup quarterback

and Mac Jones is certainly living proof of that.

Defensive line could be an issue. Running back could be an issue in terms of where we go here.

Let's look at the defensive line availability striker.

Sean Franklin Myers has gone. They have Malcolm Roach,

FDJ Jones, Savian Jones, who is a reek as there as well.

All right, nothing's blowing my hair back here.

Okay. All right. What do you think, Ran?

Where did you want to go? Because we've, like you said, two linebackers. We've hit the tight end.

Let's go best available striker. And let's see what we got because we're these are all late

seven around picks at this point. So we need to get guys that can, at this point, you're looking

for guys that can have a chance to make the team and contribute on special teams. Is that the

thinking? Right. Yeah. So my soul face on is a good running back. He's 27.

So I don't think I don't know even as a seventh round pick.

Many Anthony, the wider Sierra Wisconsin, I think he's a special teams guy. I think he has a

chance to make the team. I don't know how you feel about Haynes King. Haynes King.

Now is that you know what? Let's do this. We're going to start with key controls to

to tackle out of Michigan, Adam and Sir, excuse me. I like him a lot. I think he goes higher than

that. Score down a little bit. No, go down lower. Yeah. Let's go with that. Let's take him. So now

we have offensive line depth. So that's good. Now we have two picks to go. And then Ran, we can go

whatever direction you think is the. Please.

Let's go Patrick Payton. Yeah. Looks to part. Hasn't quite put it together. Both the

Florida set LSU, but edge rusher who maybe you can allot. Here's your pick. Man, we have Haynes King.

We have Diego Pavia. We got all the taste of hills running around here. So let's see. Keep

going down, Striker. Let's let's find. Let's let's look at running back. Let's see if we can find

a guy that has a little juice that could join the running back room. And I mean, Jam Miller's

still there. Why is he still there? Donaldson's got some versatility. Let's go CJ Donaldson.

That's I mean, they have the running back room is a it's a deep room. But this is the that's

Mr. relevant. Essentially. So I get it. All right. Broncos fans, let us know. Give us a grade.

Letter grade. Hopefully it's an A. I suspect it won't be. But let us know what you think of this.

Again, Carson Beck was our second pick. And let us know what you think of that. We got a C plus

on this one. According to PFF. And let us know if you think we got better or worse than that.

I know we doubled up in the linebackers. Two good players are going to play.

I think it was the F for Oscar Oscar dealt.

That's disrespectful to Oscar. Oscar's a good player. I've got depth with Keegan

Trost Patrick Payton's a flyer. Never quite put it together. But he has the physical tools for

sure in the CJ Donaldson is added to that running back room. All right. That's it for the perfect

fix for the Denver Broncos. Remember, we're going to hit all 32 teams. Thanks as always for joining us

in the discussion. Always love here, which you guys have to say. Be sure to subscribe if you like

what we do here. And we will see you guys in the next one.

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