There are no offseason NFL events that I look forward to more than the draft. By then the schedule is out and you have a sense of the new season, a new team being built.
Elsewhere on this site there are great features and pictorials on current and past players, so I thought I would take a quick look back at the Broncos' draft beginnings.
The first American Football League draft was in 1960. Except for a few teams, like the Dallas Texans, Los Angeles Chargers and Houston Oilers, there was no hope for the others — the Broncos especially — of keeping pace financially with the NFL in the signing of college players.