Ever since Vic Fangio mentioned a desire to upgrade the linebacker position (with nuance) with a chance that they would play more 6 DB sets, I haven’t been able to let it go. Everyone in the AFC now looks at Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs as the roadblock to the Super bowl. To get past them, there’s going to need to be a defense good enough to match up with Andy Reid’s dangerously versatile cache of weapons.
It’s for this reason a Swiss Army knife could be a secretly enticing option for the Broncos, and on this side of Isaiah Simmons there isn’t a single prospect in this NFL Draft class as versatile as Alabama’s Xavier McKinney.