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Keeler: John Elway’s Josh Allen, Bradley Chubb NFL draft whiff still haunts Broncos Country. If Sean Payton’s half as smart as he says, he won’t repeat it.

The Broncos don’t need another first-round edge rusher. They need an exorcist. Because years after John Elway left the building, The Ghost of Josh Allen still haunts the dang place.

The specter of big No. 17, dressed in a tattered Orange & Blue jersey that never was, passes through walls at Dove Valley, rattling his first-down chains in the dead of night, wailing like a banshee at the stars shining back from an arid sky.

The creaks and howls pick up at this time of year. The real-life Allen just played in his 10th NFL playoff game since January 2020 with Buffalo, his real-life team.