2026 Draft discussion thread

[Orange Crush77]

No time like the present to talk about our future. Discuss

 

[nflbronco]

OT please Denver

 

[MileHigh64]

I'm hoping that bolster all of the holes that reveal themselves during the 2025 season.

 

[MileHigh64]

Did @Draft Crazy approve the timing of this thread? Just checking, cause he can get pretty grumpy if we stray outside of the forum norms.

 

[Draft Crazy]

Did @Draft Crazy approve the timing of this thread? Just checking, cause he can get pretty grumpy if we stray outside of the forum norms.

I am the one that told him to create it. If I had my way we would have a 2027 Draft Thread as well.

Tradition that OC starts this the day after the draft.

 

[Draft Crazy]

OT please Denver

Why?

Every year you want OL...

Our OL was as good as it has been last year and everyone is under contract for the following season. We have depth. Way too early this could all change over a course of a year. A lot can happen but why do you keep calling for OL???

I could understand the previous 8 years.

 

[Draft Crazy]

I'm hoping that bolster all of the holes that reveal themselves during the 2025 season.

Good response.

Also, we got our Punter, Jeremy Crawshaw.. Chestbumps!!

Thanks for your support with Crawshaw over Tullip or Burnip I mean.

 

[nflbronco]

Why?

Every year you want OL...

Our OL was as good as it has been last year and everyone is under contract for the following season. We have depth. Way too early this could all change over a course of a year. A lot can happen but why do you keep calling for OL???

I could understand the previous 8 years.

One year I'll be right

 

[MileHigh64]

Good response.

Also, we got our Punter, Jeremy Crawshaw.. Chestbumps!!

Thanks for your support with Crawshaw over Tullip or Burnip I mean.

Yeah, I was on the Crawshaw train with you all the way. Better things rhymed with his name, as you may recall.

 

[MileHigh64]

I am the one that told him to create it. If I had my way we would have a 2027 Draft Thread as well.

Tradition that OC starts this the day after the draft.

Yeah, okay good. We can all do whatever we want on this forum but when it comes to the draft, we're very sensitive to your wants and needs, since you are.....well....... Draft Crazy. Glad OC is continuing the tradition. Also glad we won't be talking about Arch Manning and other QBs!

 

[Draft Crazy]

One year I'll be right

I just have to give you a hard time...

It just feels really good to not have to worry about OL after a decade of worrying about it.

Enjoy it for one year at least.

 

[Draft Crazy]

Yeah, okay good. We can all do whatever we want on this forum but when it comes to the draft, we're very sensitive to your wants and needs, since you are.....well....... Draft Crazy. Glad OC is continuing the tradition. Also glad we won't be talking about Arch Manning and other QBs!

As long as you fluff my pillow and rub my feet.

 

[Draft Crazy]

@MileHigh64 I use to start a recruiting thread each year at KFFL. Stopped doing it when we all came over to the hoop.

 

[nflbronco]

I just have to give you a hard time...

It just feels really good to not have to worry about OL after a decade of worrying about it.

Enjoy it for one year at least.

Yeah it sure does.

 

[Draft Crazy]

@Orange Crush77 Misses Elijah Wilkinson and Donald Stephenson.

 

[Draft Crazy]

 

[LGM]

I hear this qb in Texas is going #1 if he declares.

 

[Draft Crazy]

Alabama OT Kadyn Proctor from Des Moines, IA has a good chance to go #1 overall. Would be funny to see a kid from Iowa not playing at Iowa go #1. The guy may never want to step foot into Iowa again though. He is disliked after his recruiting.

Committed to Iowa all locked in only to shun them last minute for Alabama due to NIL (which you can't blame him)

After one year at Alabama he hit the portal when Saban retired. Came to Iowa. Was enrolled in classes, talked the talk about Iowa, so happy to be here. Blah blah blah.. Got an NIL deal and was happy. In March goes to Alabama for Spring break with his friends and then decides he wants to stay there after already being enrolled in class at Iowa... Flys back, leaves Iowa, hits the portal, heads back to Alabama.

Has amazing tools, needs to put it all together this year.

 

[cdumler7]

Alabama OT Kadyn Proctor from Des Moines, IA has a good chance to go #1 overall. Would be funny to see a kid from Iowa not playing at Iowa go #1. The guy may never want to step foot into Iowa again though. He is disliked after his recruiting.

Committed to Iowa all locked in only to shun them last minute for Alabama due to NIL (which you can't blame him)

After one year at Alabama he hit the portal when Saban retired. Came to Iowa. Was enrolled in classes, talked the talk about Iowa, so happy to be here. Blah blah blah.. Got an NIL deal and was happy. In March goes to Alabama for Spring break with his friends and then decides he wants to stay there after already being enrolled in class at Iowa... Flys back, leaves Iowa, hits the portal, heads back to Alabama.

Has amazing tools, needs to put it all together this year.

I do wonder how much that comes up in his interviews with his wavering back and forth. In the end the talent is too hard to ignore but I think if he came to Denver I know Nick would have trouble cheering for the guy after so many let downs about his commitment to Iowa.

 

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