Tank watch: FPI projects the Broncos picking 5th behind Cleveland, San Fran, Indy and the Giants. Cleveland is almost sure to take a QB at #1 and the Giants certainly ill be considering one.
Right now they are in three way tie for 4th with Indy and Chicago behind Cleveland, SF. There are 3 or 4 teams a game back depending on what the Texans do tonight (Cleveland owns their pick).
Forget Cleveland crawling out of that hole. There is no way they finish 3-2. However, the Texans losing could help as the higher their pick gets the odds that whomever is in charge of the Browns this spring will get cute again and try to draft a QB after #1.
The Niners have two winnable games coming up with Chicago and Houston.
The Giants have the Raiders, Cardinals and Redskins left
The Bears have the aforementioned Game versus the San Fran, Cleveland and Cincy coming up.
The Colts have a head to head versus the Broncos in 2 weeks and finish with the Texans
Honestly I think the Broncos could win any of the remaining 5 games. Miami, the Jets, the Colts and Skins are all 5 win teams or under and I wouldn't sleep on KCs ability to lose to bad teams this season (they lost to the Giants too). Fortunately the season finale looks like it will have meaning to the Chefs playoff chances/position.
Buffalo I could see as a trade up threat. They have soured on Tyrod Taylor, have an extra 1st from the Mahomes trade with the Chiefs (both teams could make or miss the playoffs) and extra second from the Rams from the Sammy Watkins trade.
However, Buffalo is also a threat for Cousins. As is the Bills project at $30 million in cap space and cutting Tyrod alone would open up another $9.4m or $13m in cap space. Cousins grew up and went to college in Michigan, so he can't be too adverse to Great Lakes ****holes.
