The Denver Broncos selected nine players in the 2022 NFL draft and they filled several key positions of need, but they did not add a new right tackle.
Denver did not set out to avoid the position going into the draft — their board just didn’t have a tackle fall to them at an opportune time.
“We wanted to add depth to a number of positions,” general manager George Paton said on Saturday evening. “It just didn’t fall at those two positions [OT and LB]. It fell at nine others. You can’t fill them all.