Draft review
We looked at the best and worst team grades from the 2011 draft on Tuesday.
The two teams that played in last February’s Super Bowl picked 1-2 in that draft and scored monster additions around which they built their football teams. A year later, 2012, the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers continued to add quality pieces. They were additions that were critical parts to those teams getting through the playoffs and into the Super Bowl.
A year after adding defensive cornerstone Von Miller, Denver had a great 2012 draft and added defensive starters Derek Wolfe, Malik Jackson and Danny Trevathan in rounds two, five and six respectively. Denver also picked Brock Osweiler in round two. By all accounts a great draft. And the crazy thing is, it may be no better than third in the pecking order.
The Panthers, the team the Broncos beat in Super Bowl 50 three months ago, added two of the game’s top 10 defensive talents in Luke Kuechly and Josh Norman to enter the discussion of the teams that had a great draft.