The Super Bowl is com­ing up this Sun­day, but for the 30 teams not in the game — includ­ing the Bron­cos — thoughts are look­ing ahead to the 2024 season.

In the pre­vi­ous mock draft roundup, many, many ana­lysts had Den­ver beef­ing up its sec­ondary with a big-name cor­ner­back. Have things changed?

Here’s a look at who nation­al draft­niks are think­ing will land in Denver.

NFL.com | Bucky Brooks | Updat­ed Jan. 22

Terrion Arnold, CB, Alabama

“The Bron­cos pair Pat Sur­tain II with Arnold, a pol­ished cov­er cor­ner. With excep­tion­al instincts and aware­ness, the for­mer Tide star is a scheme-friend­ly defen­sive play­mak­er on the perime­ter,” Brooks writes. See the full mock draft.

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CBS Sports | Josh Edwards | Updat­ed Feb. 6

Terrion Arnold, CB, Alabama

“Quar­ter­back is obvi­ous­ly going to be a role that Den­ver has to fig­ure out this off­sea­son, but it may not find a prospect who it loves at this stage of the first round. Instead, the Bron­cos draft one Alaba­ma cor­ner­back to play oppo­site the oth­er,” Edwards writes. See the full mock draft.

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NFL.com | Daniel Jere­mi­ah | Updat­ed Jan. 21

Terrion Arnold, CB, Alabama

“I think Arnold could go as high as fifth over­all. He’s the best cor­ner­back in this draft and he would pair with Pat Sur­tain II to give the Bron­cos one of the best CB tandems in the league, if not the best,” Jere­mi­ah writes. See the full mock draft.

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Sports Illus­trat­ed | Luke East­er­ling | Updat­ed Feb. 5

Brock Bowers, TE, Georgia

No write-up avail­able. See the full mock draft.

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Bleach­er Report | Joe Tansey | Updat­ed Feb. 5

Brock Bowers, TE, Georgia

No write-up avail­able. See the full mock draft.

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ESPN | Mel Kiper Jr. | Updat­ed Jan. 23

Laiatu Latu, Edge, UCLA

“I love Latu’s abil­i­ty to bend the edge and get after quar­ter­backs. He’s a tool­sy pass-rush­er who has a vari­ety of moves and always has a plan of attack. He ranked sec­ond in the FBS in total pres­sures (57) and pres­sure rate (20.4%) this past sea­son, and he ranked first in the same cat­e­gories in 2022 (55 pres­sures, 19.1% pres­sure rate). And did I men­tion he had 23.5 sacks in that time frame? Those are two sea­sons of phe­nom­e­nal pro­duc­tion. The ques­tions with Latu will come at the NFL com­bine in a few weeks, as he med­ical­ly retired from foot­ball because of a neck injury when he was at Wash­ing­ton in 2021. He was cleared to play for the Bru­ins, but what will his med­ical check­ups show?

“For Den­ver, adding Latu would be a boost to a pass rush that was just OK last sea­son. The Bron­cos tied for 21st with 42 sacks, but over­all they ranked 30th in yards per play allowed (5.8) and 32nd in yards per car­ry allowed (5.0). Latu has the poten­tial to become a 10-sacks-per-sea­son defend­er,” Kiper writes. See the full mock draft (sub­scrip­tion).

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NFL.com | Lance Zier­lein | Updat­ed Feb. 5

J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan

“NFL eval­u­a­tors have described McCarthy’s pro­cess­ing as ‘elite”‘ in my con­ver­sa­tions with them. Drew Brees was a great process­er, but he didn’t have the same ath­let­ic abil­i­ty that McCarthy offers. This just feels like a Sean Pay­ton pick,” Zier­lein writes. See the full mock draft.

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NFL.com | Eric Edholm | Updat­ed Feb. 2

Byron Murphy II, DT, Texas

“I know many will pine for a quar­ter­back, but I think the Bron­cos will be hard-pressed to land a wor­thy tal­ent at the posi­tion in this lofty draft slot. Instead, they could piv­ot to upgrad­ing the inte­ri­or D‑line with an explo­sive pen­e­tra­tor such as Mur­phy, even if this feels a tad high for him,” Edholm writes. See the full mock draft.

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The Den­ver Post | Ryan McFad­den | Updat­ed Feb. 4

Jer’Zhan Newton, DT, Illinois

Trade: Den­ver trades the No. 12 pick to the Rams for No. 19, No. 52 and No. 153

“There’s a good chance (Bo) Nix will be avail­able at No. 19, but Den­ver decides to give the defense a much-need­ed boost. Last sea­son, the Bron­cos’ defen­sive line strug­gled to gen­er­ate con­sis­tent pres­sure. Even though New­ton is con­sid­ered under­sized for his posi­tion, he is dis­rup­tive. New­ton became the first Illi­nois play­er to be named Big Ten Defen­sive Play­er of the Year in 29 years after he totaled 52 tack­les and 7 ½ sacks. He will be a major upgrade up front for the Bron­cos,” McFad­den writes. See the full sev­en-round mock draft.

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USA Today | Nate Davis | Updat­ed Jan. 29

Bo Nix, QB, Oregon

“Time was, it was unusu­al to see five quar­ter­backs in Round 1 of a giv­en draft. But time was, it was unusu­al for a team to trade a boat­load of picks for a vet­er­an quar­ter­back, grant him a $240+ mil­lion exten­sion, then give up on him two years lat­er. But it seems that’s where Den­ver cur­rent­ly is. Nix appears to have sig­nif­i­cant­ly more upside than jour­ney­man place­hold­er Jar­rett Stid­ham, not to men­tion the accu­ra­cy — near­ly 75% in two sea­sons with the Ducks — Bron­cos coach Sean Pay­ton val­ues, plus hav­ing a nose for the goal line (38 rush­ing TDs in five col­lege sea­sons),” Davis writes. See the full mock draft.

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The Sport­ing News | Vin­nie Iyer | Updat­ed Jan. 29

Bo Nix, QB, Oregon

“The Bron­cos will work to get out of the Rus­sell Wil­son con­tract in the off­sea­son giv­en Sean Pay­ton benched him late in the sea­son and should be look­ing for his own QB solu­tion going for­ward. Nix is an ide­al prospect for Payton’s sys­tem with his arm, ath­leti­cism and accu­rate exe­cu­tion based on his expe­ri­ence,” Iyer writes. See the full mock draft.

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ESPN | Matt Miller | Updat­ed Feb. 5

Bo Nix, QB, Oregon

“With Rus­sell Wil­son expect­ed to be released, the Bron­cos are on the hunt for a new fran­chise quar­ter­back. Nix is com­ing off a sol­id show­ing at the Senior Bowl, where team scouts raved about his inter­views and the work he did in prac­tice. Nix, who start­ed for three sea­sons at Auburn before trans­fer­ring to Ore­gon in 2022, is expe­ri­enced and pro-ready, and he has the accu­ra­cy (nation-lead­ing 77.4% com­ple­tion rate) and sec­ond-effort mobil­i­ty to work well with coach Sean Payton’s scheme. This might feel ear­ly for Nix, but quar­ter­backs always rise, and scouts keep telling me that he is going to get draft­ed ear­li­er than expect­ed,” Miller writes. See the full mock draft (sub­scrip­tion).

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Pro Foot­ball Focus | Trevor Sikke­ma and Con­nor Rogers | Updat­ed Feb. 5

Bo Nix, QB, Oregon

No write-up avail­able. See the full mock draft.

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The 33rd Team | Con­nor Livesay | Updat­ed Jan. 29

Dallas Turner, Edge, Alabama

“Pass rush­ing wins in the NFL, and Alaba­ma EDGE Dal­las Turn­er can get after quar­ter­backs. Turn­er needs to improve his hand tech­nique and strike tim­ing, but his ath­let­ic and phys­i­cal traits will give NFL scouts plen­ty to dream about,” Livesay writes. See the full mock draft.

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The Ath­let­ic | Diante Lee | Updat­ed Jan. 30

Jared Verse, Edge, Florida State

“Verse is in the con­ver­sa­tion to be the draft’s top edge (and would have gone ear­li­er had we includ­ed trades here). Like Turn­er, Verse had a 20-per­cent pres­sure rate in 2023, con­vert­ing speed to pow­er in a fash­ion rem­i­nis­cent of Will Ander­son Jr. He’s not a nat­ur­al hip ben­der like Turn­er, but his hands are good, and his motor makes him a sack threat on sec­ond efforts or counter moves. There’s still room to add weight to his frame with­out hurt­ing his explo­sive­ness,” Lee writes. See the full mock draft (sub­scrip­tion).

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