Denver Broncos Trade Rumor Just HEATED UP!

Oh, the NFL trade rumors involving your Denver Broncos are hitting a boiling point and the Broncos could make an absolute fleece of a trade. It is not just about Jonathan Taylor. Although after today's news, the Broncos may even be more front runners for his talents than even they were as the day started. We've got a ton to break down. If you're new to the channel, I'm a diehard Broncos fan and it helps me in the algorithm out a ton. If you like the Broncos smash that like and subscribe button. The other day I did a video in which I was talking about how I thought the Indianapolis Colts were about to do a fire sale and all the Colts clapped back in the comments and said, Hey, we're not selling anything. We could still make the playoffs. Well, the fire sale has now commenced. So the Indianapolis Colts are starting to part with pieces. And the big piece that they traded away from today was their all pro guard here, Quentin Nelson. Now, uh, he and Quentin Nelson are like neck and neck as some of the best guards in all professional football. And there were a ton of Broncos fans who really wanted the Broncos to go out and get him. But if you take a look at, uh, the actual strengths of this team, you see like Bo Nix is the least sacked quarterback in professional football. Uh, and we get at the quarterback more than anyone else. And so when you look at total needs on the team, I think it absolutely makes sense that the Broncos did not make this move. But what's interesting is that the team that traded for him was the Seattle Seahawks. Now, if you're putting all these breadcrumbs together, the Seahawks were also one of the front runners to go out and try to get Jonathan Taylor, uh, Jonathan Taylor, obviously the phenomenal running back for the Indianapolis Colts. The other name on that short list is the Green Bay Packers. Well, they got Josh Jacobs back faster than they thought they were going to. So they no longer need a running back in the Vikings. They need a quarterback more than they need a running back. So in my mind, I think the Broncos are absolutely the front runners at the running back position. And I think it is really needed because here's the deal. When we re-signed JK Dobbins, nobody clapped harder. No one cheered more than me. I'm a huge JK Dobbins fan, but for whatever reason this season, it isn't what we had last season. Like before he went down last year, he was one of the best running backs in all professional football. I thought that was the version of JK Dobbins we are getting back now ultimately i trust sean payton and trust that man if jk has something left in the tank maybe that Lis Frank injury is going to take longer than he thought he did have his best game of the season after that 10-day mini buy and so maybe he's going to be feeling better each and every week but the fact of the matter is that so far Jonah Coleman has by far and away been the more explosive running back per carry in on this Denver Broncos team like there's no doubting that that when it comes to uh the production that we've seen out Jonah Coleman and just 19 carries has surpassed what we've seen in JK, even when he has been the bell cow back this season. Now, to me, the death nail isn't just that JK has fallen off a cliff from a production standpoint. It is starting to just pick up these tea leaves that there's some bad juju going in the Broncos locker room because of JK, which is hard to hear because JK was like the first person who came out and announced to the world that Bo Nix was him. He was on ESPN Deportes, remember? And he said, Bo Nix is special and he had Bo's back. And so from a culture standpoint you were counting on him lifting up this team and for whatever reason this last week after that Arizona Cardinals game you saw a ton of bad body language from him uh so much so that even Mike Kliss who never does stuff like this ended up saying hello Indy because after that game JK Dobbins uh told all of the press uh crew around there that he was unavailable for an interview and then you just saw him jump off of the field and when he scored his touchdown he didn't celebrate with his teammates like he always does uh and then even you just see his body language on the side of the uh the broncos sideline it just did not look the same now if there's something left in the tank or even if we see this body language continue maybe then it becomes dude we got to get rid of you because you're taking this team down uh in my heart of hearts i'm going to give him one more week from like a chemistry standpoint like maybe he is just hurt seeing like this young guy come out here and just absolutely ball out of control and so let's give it one more week before we overreact when it comes to uh just jk body language but let us talk about the options because I think of all times the Broncos are clearly in their Super Bowl window and I think there are a ton of options out there that the Broncos could get demonstrably better at the running back position and it's crazy to see right now that there are four teams in sell mode who have a fantastic running back who could just make this team a Super Bowl contender we saw what the addition of obviously Kenneth Walker did to that Chiefs team and I just think Bo Nix gets so much better as a quarterback if he has a running back room that has any of these names on the list. I'm going to go through them, how much they would cost the Broncos to go trade for, what the cap hit would be, what's the pro and con, why it would make sense for the Broncos. We'll look at highlights for each of them. And then ultimately, you got to let me know in the comments, which of these guys do you like the most? So let's start off with the guy I think we all would lose our ever-loving minds if the Broncos got, and that is Jonathan Taylor, not Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement, but Jonathan Taylor, absolute dog here. You're looking at a 27 year old, uh, who ran a four, three at the combine, but he weighs almost 230 pounds. He is huge. We have seen him run all over us. Like, unfortunately we've seen him run all over us. Like, uh, let's go back to, um, the, the play from last year that I just look at all the time where you're like, dude, this guy is a phenomenal threat when it comes to catching the ball to running the ball. He does it all. And he has taken a ton of carries. Now my one concern with him is knowing that he is getting up there in age. And just like we saw, you remember when The Broncos had Monte Ball a couple of years ago from Wisconsin, had a huge career in college. And then it was just like there was too much tread on the tires by the time he was with the Broncos. And so that's the thing that would worry me is that he was the bell cow back with the Wisconsin Badgers. But man, you look at a dude, a lot of these highlights are even from this year, a guy who almost is always healthy, a guy who gives it out there every day for his teammates. And the other interesting thing about him is like his wife also liked a couple of comments from Broncos fans chiming in on her TikTok reel where she was talking about how Jonathan Taylor might get traded. So when we take a look at what he would cost and really what he has done, let's look at stats first. So when we just look at this year right now, far and away, the guy leading the clubhouse is Jonathan Taylor. He's almost had 500 yards rushing the ball already by himself with a really dog water team. You see his yards per carries at 4.0. That's facing a ton of loaded boxes. I think he would come to Denver and be like, wait, they only put six in the box to stop the run. I'm going to run for days on this team. Rushing touchdowns. He already has seven rushing touchdowns. The season is still young. He has played six games already this season and 15 receptions out of the backfield, which we saw a couple of highlights of that. And then again, when you look here at the two year total, you're seeing him up here at the very top of all those things. Other names on this list here, it was obviously going to be Tony Pollard. Now he is a guy who is on a contract year for the Tennessee Titans. And so they're going to lose him this year for nothing. And so he is going to be easily the cheapest option of all of these. You're looking, he is the oldest of the bunch, just by a couple of months older than Saquon Barkley. But again, he's going to cost the least. And again, you're looking at a guy when it comes to statistics, just from last year, knowing he was on just a very, very bad Tennessee Titans team, and he still had a thousand yards rushing. I mean, I feel like we've only had a hundred yard rusher one time here since Bo Nix has even been the quarterback and Tony Pollard strings together a hundred yard games in, in even with a really bad quarterback play with obviously Cam Ward. And you look at him this year again, he's almost has as many yards so far this year as Jonathan Taylor. Obviously his ceiling is lower because he's already older, but he's averaging 4.3 yards per carry on a very, very bad defense. Already has four touchdowns this year, and he's played in seven games. And then he has 11 catches out of the backfield. So probably the worst receiving threat out of the backfield. And if you look at his two-year totals, you're looking at a guy who's got 2,000 yards over these past two years and averaging 4.3 yards a clip. I think that's a phenomenal talent and you could get him for next to nothing. Now, Breece Hall, this is a guy who last year, the Kansas City Chiefs almost pulled off a trade with the Jets to get Breece Hall, but they only offered a fourth round pick and the Jets said their asking price was a third round draft pick. Now, I think that asking price may have even dropped a little bit because they've already paid him a bunch and so we'll talk about the cap hit if you get Breece Hall um but man you look Breece Hall like absolutely nasty talent here uh and and we're just looking at uh again as a pass catcher especially i think he had the best nfl combine um numbers he's going to be the youngest out of this group as well and hasn't played on good defense or good offenses at all and really teams have been able to load the box to try to stop him knowing that he really is um the definitive thing the only thing going with the jets and they're out of it they just loss to the Dolphins. A quarterback reset is in store for them as Geno Smith obviously is not going to be the quarterback for long for the New York football Jets. So to me, that could be a very intriguing one. The price tag is a little bit higher. And then lastly, the highest star power name here is Saquon Barkley. This is a dude I'm going to pull up his highlights just from last night to show that he still has tread on the tire. So obviously we all know Saquon Barkley, the cover of Madden doing a 360 hurdle over a guy. And you talk about the most explosive guy in this running back room or in this running back proposed trade situation is Saquon, but I'm showing these from last night to show that he still does have stuff in the tank. And this is him coming off of an injury and not having all the cardio that we know he'll have. By the time the Broncos go on a little bit of a Superbowl run, we know he already has proven it, that he can do it when you get deep in the playoffs. And, uh, you look here at what he had just last season because of injury, um, because of injuries, I think he ended up playing, uh, last season, he only played 16 games because of one injury. But again, you're looking at all of these guys who had over a thousand yards, uh, and at the pace we're going, we're not even going to have a thousand total rushing yards as a whole team. Uh, unless Bo Nix keeps dropping these 60, 70 yard touchdown runs on here. So, uh, I think Saquon's big bell cow year was this going back just two seasons ago. This was not ancient history. We're not talking like going all the way back, um, a half of a decade. We're still talking, um, just two years ago, he had 2000 yards. And I think from what we saw last night, I watched that game last night. It was a horrible game that didn't matter, but I watched it to see what does Saquon still have. And you look in that year, he had a, uh, almost six yards per carry, just absolutely nasty. And then you look last year, he had the lowest yards per carry of that group, but it still was 4.1. And that was after the NFL had kind of figured out, um, what his, his superpowers really were. Now, look in here. What are the trade prices? What would it cost to get each of these guys? And what it is sounding like is it sounded like Jonathan Taylor would would need to be at least a second round draft pick for the Broncos to get him, which seems kind of pricey to me when you consider all of the things that the Broncos have recently done at the running back position. And we paid JK this off season. We went out and used high draft picks on Jonah Coleman and RJ Harvey. So it's like, we have tried to fix this running back position. And it is Sean going to be humble enough to say all these things we've done have not worked. And it doesn't matter what I've spent on it. Like there's such thing as a spent money fallacy. And so my hope is Sean Payton isn't going to play the spent money fallacy. I don't care what we've already put into the position. If one of these is an answer, you got to do it. So a second round draft pick, obviously way less than what we saw the 49ers have to get up for a guy like Christian McCaffrey. But again, he's up there in age, right? He's 27 with a lot of carries on his body, but that's about what it would cost for him. Tony Pollard, I think is a fifth round draft pick, day three draft pick, a fourth or fifth round pick. I think if that is your answer, you do that all day. Brees Hall is an interesting one, man. If we could get Brees Hall for a third round draft pick or a fourth round, I think you run to the, to, uh, the jets and do that. And then I think the, um, Eagles would, it would probably be a second round draft pick and a player. So could you give up JK Dobbins and a second round draft pick? Here's the cap hits for each of these situations. So obviously the one who's going to cost you the most, it's not just what draft capital you have to give up this year. It is what choices does that make for these Broncos next year that, that may hurt or help them. So Tony Pollard is the easiest one because you don't have to pay him next year unless he really performs. And it, you know, so it costs us next to nothing. We have four, almost $5 million in cap space. So we could fit any of these guys this year. It is, if we get them, then we don't have all that money to give Bo Nix a new deal or to get Brandon Jones or Riley Moss or Jaquan McMillian back. And I think all of those are conversations that the Broncos have to have. So a $16 million cap hit next year on Jonathan Taylor, when he's going to be 29 by the end of next season. That's a lot to give up here. Uh, Breece Hall would be a $13 million cap hit. So less for a much younger guy. That's an intriguing thing that you could get Brees Hall for less draft capital. And he's a smaller hit on your cap. And then Saquon, uh, because of how Howie Roseman always does these deals is that Saquon's biggest cap hit isn't until all the way out until 2029. And who knows by then, maybe the robots are running the world and the Broncos have won three Super Bowls in a row so if i were making the pick right now uh between all of these guys like the win now move i think is Saquon or Jonathan Taylor the best value is Tony Pollard because you get him for just a fifth round draft pick and you only pay him next year if he's good um and and the long-term deal i think is Breece Hall because he is the youngest but um you could get Saquon for less and he costs your cap next it really does hurt you in years uh moving forward so let me know in the comments, like which of these guys would you go? And I think if I had to pull the plug and do this right now, uh, give me Saquon Barkley as a, the Denver Broncos next running back. But I'll, I'd be thrilled if the Broncos make any of these moves. And even if they make none of them, I'm going to be thrilled because I think what that proves is that Sean Payton knows that he has the answer in house. And maybe that answer is JK is going to come back after the full bye week and he's going to look like the JK of old maybe it's that he knows Jonah Coleman is a dog and ready to take this team all the way on a Super Bowl run uh but either way the Broncos have so many options in front of them i cannot wait to see how it all transpires and i can't wait to do it with you the Broncos country we're about to make a move we got a ton to believe in oh and the ball don't lie