The Denver Broncos have drafted 16 players over the last two years. Of those players, 11 were team captains in college. Expect that trend to continue this year.
During his pre-draft Zoom conference call with reporters on Monday, Broncos general manager John Elway explained that the team wasn’t specifically targeting high-character players before 2018.
“We had a couple of misses back there, and I think the misses that we had were people that were character concerns,” Elway said. “I think we’ve kind of focused and turned around a little bit more than we have [in the past].”
Elway explained that in recent seasons, when the team has been losing, some players didn’t set good examples in the locker room. So Denver’s front office made an effort to bring in high-character players to turn around the mentality of the team.
“We have some really good leadership in that locker room now, positive leadership, and guys that want to win football games,” Elway said.
