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Originally Posted by Blueflame
My point wasn't about whether or not those draft picks panned out and the information about who they were isn't exactly a secret. The point was that during the entire Shanahan era, we didn't select a single player within the first ten of the draft in any year. Guess I could have made my point just as well by noting 6 wins is the fewest we had in any Shanahan year and it resulted in a #10 overall pick, but Shanahan traded down to #19. We were never, ever close to #2 with Shanahan at the helm, so I don't see how anyone can advance a valid argument that 4-12 and #2 overall wasn't the nadir of this franchise since the 60's/early 70's.
Edited to add: you have to go all the way back to '91 (Mike Croel, #4 overall) to find another Broncos top-ten draft pick besides Von Miller. Broncos fans are not used to the team sucking horribly enough to be drafting in the top ten.
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Do you really beleive he would have not screwed up those picks if he had?
If you go back and look at players taken in the top ten they were usually DL, QB, or OL. With an occasional RB/WR
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2003 - ROUND 1
SEL # TEAM PLAYER POSITION SCHOOL
1 Cincinnati Bengals Carson Palmer QB USC
2 Detroit Lions Charles Rogers WR Michigan State
3 Houston Texans Andre Johnson WR Miami (Fla.)
4 New York Jets Dewayne Robertson DT Kentucky
5 Dallas Cowboys Terence Newman CB Kansas State
6 New Orleans Saints Johnathan Sullivan DT Georgia
7 Jacksonville Jaguars Byron Leftwich QB Marshall
8 Carolina Panthers Jordan Gross T Utah
9 Minnesota Vikings Kevin Williams DE Oklahoma State
10 Baltimore Ravens Terrell Suggs OLB Arizona State
11 Seattle Seahawks Marcus Trufant CB Washington State
12 St. Louis Rams Jimmy Kennedy DT Penn State
13 New England Patriots Ty Warren DE Texas A&M
14 Chicago Bears Michael Haynes DE Penn State
15 Philadelphia Eagles Jerome McDougle DE Miami (Fla.)
16 Pittsburgh Steelers Troy Polamalu DB USC
17 Arizona Cardinals Bryant Johnson WR Penn State
18 Arizona Cardinals Calvin Pace DE Wake Forest
19 Baltimore Ravens Kyle Boller QB California
20 Denver Broncos George Foster
04
1 San Diego Chargers Eli Manning QB Mississippi
2 Oakland Raiders Robert Gallery T Iowa
3 Arizona Cardinals Larry Fitzgerald WR Pittsburgh
4 New York Giants Philip Rivers QB North Carolina State
5 Washington Redskins Sean Taylor FS Miami (Fla.)
6 Cleveland Browns Kellen Winslow TE Miami (Fla.)
7 Detroit Lions Roy Williams WR Texas
8 Atlanta Falcons DeAngelo Hall CB Virginia Tech
9 Jacksonville Jaguars Reggie Williams WR Washington
10 Houston Texans Dunta Robinson CB South Carolina
More later