Quote:yeah i get that. but broncos also have von miller rushing the passer. Colvin is serviceable enough to play nickel. we don't need to go wasting a high draft pick (hopefully our last high draft pick in a while) on someone that is going to be covering the 3rd best receiver. And then come time, we won't resign both Ramsey and Lattimore

You do realize a lot of WR1s move inside? It's a passing league. We play in a division with TY Hilton, who the Colts regularly move inside. And our problem is that we keep saying guys are "serviceable". I would be all for turning something that is good into great for once, instead of saying good is enough all the time and trying to spread focus only for everything to fall apart because none of the positions are strong enough.

 

There IS actually a need at corner still because other than Ramsey and Bouye we have a big fat black hole at outside corner. You need 3 good outside corners in this league. If one of our other two guys go down we're pretty much screwed. Josh Johnson and Colvin are both slot guys. So drafting Lattimore makes sense from a needs perspective as well.

 

On the pass rushing point, we need to stop deluding ourselves into thinking all our secondary woes the pass couple years have been because the pass rush wasn't good enough. The Broncos pass rush this year was not nearly as good as it was in years past and their secondary was still shut down. Why? Because they have 3 probowl-caliber corners. The fact is we haven't had good enough players at corner up until last year year. If we have Ramsey, Lattimore, and Bouye the pass rush not being great won't matter, they will still shut down the secondary.

 

Finally, who cares about 4-5 years down the road? The good thing is that we will have options when that time comes. Who builds a team based on "well we won't be able to sign both in 5 years so let's not get a future probowl/all-pro player". Furthermore, depending on the position, whoever we draft at 4 may be even more expensive than Lattimore, if it's DL for example. So that point really has nothing to do with anything here.

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