“Leadership is, can I turn sixth-, seventh-round, free-agent picks into not just special teams and role players, but pivotal, key parts of what we do on the team? Sean (Payton)’s extremely good at that.” Story from ParkerJGabriel
The Northern Michigan University offensive lineman is a walking representation of the idea that, if you can play, the NFL will find you. Heck, he’s only just started playing and the league still caught wind of the athletic, 6-foot-7 tackle prospect on the Lake Superior shoreline.
All of a sudden, he was a popular guy among scouts and front offices. Going into that workout, he was regularly in touch with three to five teams. The Broncos have to mine the middle and late rounds for talent since they don’t have a pick currently in the first or second rounds. They also need more talent and depth on the offensive line and happen to have a coach in Sean Payton who jumpstarted his first year in New Orleans by logging a string of 2006 draft hits. Among them were a pair of offensive linemen in fourth-rounder Jahri Evans and seventh-rounder Zach Strief, now Denver’s offensive line coach.
The Saints hit again in the seventh round that year with Strief. Payton credited late Northwestern coach Randy Walker — a mentor he worked with at Miami in the 1990s — with putting him on the unheralded tackle. Take Payton’s long run in New Orleans as an example. He and general manager Mickey Loomis had 24 draft picks in that time that have played in 100 NFL games. Colston and Strief are the only two drafted in the seventh round. Eight were first-rounders, six more were in the next two rounds.
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