The Denver Broncos are entering the 2025 season as a fairly consensus top-10 team in football. Most of that work should be attributed to the incredible work of head coach Sean Payton and general manager George Paton. Broncos fans and players had been starved for the playoffs for some time, and the 2024 team made sure to deliver, bringing Denver back to relevance for the first time in almost a decade.
Denver entered the 2024 season with the most dead cap in NFL history after the Russell Wilson debacle, was ranked by PFF as the worst roster in football, and was considered one of the heavy favorites for the first overall draft selection.