Will Sean Payton buck history to draft a first-round QB?

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- One month from now, analysis will become action, speculation will become reality and the names will tick off one by one in the NFL draft's first round. Somebody will make the 11th pick, and the Denver Broncos will be on the clock at No. 12 if they haven't traded their way up or down.

With that pick, they face the decision to do something a Sean Payton-led team has never done and something the Broncos have rarely done: take a quarterback in the opening round.

As Payton put it at the scouting combine when asked about the best prospects at the position in this draft: "I think we'll be really good at this, and I think to some degree, we're…