ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- At a time when the transfer portal is as much a part of college football as first-and-10, the Denver Broncos assembled a 2025 NFL draft class that looks like a collection of football homebodies.
"It's not by accident," Broncos coach Sean Payton said. "There might be some coincidence in there, but in the overview, it's not by accident. Not at all."
As third-round wide receiver Pat Bryant -- who played 46 games at Illinois -- put it: "I think maybe they like guys who stayed and worked through things at one place.