The phones were a trap the Broncos kept walking into, shipping out surplus on nearly every deal. The math is unkind, and the D- follows.

The whole projection now runs through Drake Maye; hit there and everything else looks smarter. For all the activity, interior defensive lineman went untouched, which is hard to explain.

The cost of the Sinnott reach is exactly the players who went right after him. Landing Sainristil that late papers over a lot of smaller sins.

Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even.