As the Broncos evaluated options for the 30th-overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, they carefully considered the players that could be available.
"We spent a lot of time looking at that selection and trying to determine [who would be an option]," Head Coach Sean Payton said Tuesday at the NFL Annual Meeting. "We could safely say that pick would've been one of these seven or eight players."
And after going through that evaluation process, it became clear that acquiring wide receiver Jaylen Waddle with that pick provided the most value. | 
