Mike Silver shared an account from the Jacksonville Jaguars draft night on Day when the Denver Broncos shred their plans for the evening by taking two of their top targets.
The news keeps coming out from around the NFL about the Denver Broncos draft class and it has certainly been positive. Mike Silver wasn’t even covering Denver on draft night. He was in Florida covering the Jacksonville Jaguars and twice on day two in the 2025 NFL Draft their front office lamented the picks Denver made.
According to @MikeSilver‘s account of the Jaguars draft, the Jags wanted to draft RJ Harvey in the 3rd round and were targeting WR Pat Bryant.
Broncos or as the Jags referred to them, “Bastards”, would go on to select both players pic.twitter.com/kV0IYkhlbx
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That night, RJ Harvey was high on Jacksonville’s board and they even thought about moving up, but they felt confident he would be there if they remained patient. Meanwhile, the Broncos traded back twice to accumulate more picks and with the 60th pick they pulled the trigger on Harvey instead.
“We’ve got to roll the dice at some point,” Gladstone said, meaning that the Jags should take the risk that their desired players could be gone, stay true to their board and resist the compulsion to surrender further draft capital. “I mean, what’s the fun of just going out and getting your guys?”
Five picks from the end of the second round, Harvey went off the board. Someone went to inform Boselli, who’d slipped out into the snack area outside the draft room.
“Who took him?” Boselli asked.
The Denver Broncos, he was told.
“Bastards,” Boselli said, smiling. Fourteen picks later, the “bastards” would select another of the Jags’ potential targets — Illinois wide receiver Pat Bryant, aka “Duval Pat” — albeit much earlier than Gladstone would have considered drafting the Jacksonville native.
Bastards.
That’s about the best compliment this fan could hope to see from another NFL team.
If your team and another are both targeting the same player, I suppose its better to be early than late and the Broncos were early on both. If both Harvey and Pat Bryant become NFL starters no one will care if Denver drafted them a little earlier than the ‘experts’ believed on draft day.
That’s the gamble and now we get to see how it’ll play out for Denver.