The Denver Broncos have said that Bo Nix was always their 'guy' in the NFL draft. Well...
made Bo Nix the sixth quarterback taken off the board in the 2024 NFL draft. Selected at pick No. 12 overall, Nix followed Caleb Williams , Jayden Daniels , Drake Maye , Michael Penix Jr. , and J.J. McCarthy in order of being drafted.
Payton and the Broncos front office were quite confident, though, that their counterparts throughout league front offices would fall prey to the "NFL train," which, by that point, had fashioned the trope that Nix was a noodle-armed system quarterback destined for Day 2. Payton saw greatness on tape, thinking to himself, "We can't be the only ones seeing this."
"All of those things can move scouts and coaches and their grading and their opinion, so trust what you see. Tune out the white noise when you’re trying to evaluate anybody," Payton told Glazer. "It comes up all the time. 20 years ago, you didn’t have the resources and now, it’s amazing.
The teams behind the Broncos? Payton and company knew that Nix wouldn't last until the Broncos were back on the board again late-Day 2. Thus, it wasn't even a choice. Whether by Denver's hand or another team's, Nix was always going to be a first-round pick, even in a stacked quarterback class, and there was no way Payton was going to risk missing out on an ideal triggerman for his offense.
Everything Payton saw on film, sans the gimme plays, left him utterly impressed by Nix. The Oregon QB was top-of-class in all the metrics that matter, which is why you can still detect a strong tone of derision when Payton broaches the subject of Nix's pre-draft reputation — a scouting fugazi that was mostly inflated and distorted by so-called draft "experts" online.
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