The defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos will guard their title without the quarterbacks who helped get them there, as Peyton Manning retired in March and backup Brock Osweiler signed with the Houston Texans.
Denver then traded for Mark Sanchez in an attempt to come up with a starting replacement, and it missed out on a deal for the San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick.
On draft day, Denver traded up to No. 26 in Round 1 and took Memphis' Paxton Lynch, a quarterback the NFL Network's Mike Mayock said is "a year away from playing," per Mark Maske of the Washington Post.