Stokley believes the Broncos should take a QB in the first round

On Wednesday, “Stokley and Zach” co-host Zach Bye said perhaps the “least interesting” and “simultaneously the most likely” thing to happen to the Denver Broncos from 2018 to 2019 is Vance Joseph retains his job as head coach and Case Keenum retains his job at quarterback.

Bye’s co-host, Brandon Stokley agreed, but said “hope” for Broncos Country could come in the form of the team selecting a quarterback in the first round of the NFL draft.

“There’s your intrigue. There’s the hope,” Stokley said. “They’ll move up there and take a quarterback in the first round.”

Stokley said “they have to” target a quarterback in the first round in 2019 and when they “identify a guy” they’ll “try desperately to get that guy this year.”

“I think the Broncos would try to move up. I think they’ll find a quarterback that they like, one of these guys,” Stokley said.

EPSN senior writer Todd McShay’s latest mock draft has the Broncos picking at No. 18 in the draft, and a wide receiver in Oklahoma’s Marquise Brown to boot.

Stokley said he doesn’t see Denver targeting a wide receiver in the first round of the draft, and, instead, they will make a move up several spots to select a quarterback like, for example, Oregon’s Justin Herbert, whom McShay has gone at No. 7 to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

“I want a quarterback and I want hope, and I think they do that this year and I think they do it in the first round,” Stokley said. “I think they’re really, really aggressive. And if their guy’s there, they’re going move up and go get him. But I think they do take a quarterback in the first round this year.”

The prospect of trading up for a quarterback in the first round is one that Bye said “scares the hell” out of him. But Stokley said what’s scarier to him is “not having one.”

“… The scarier thing is not having one. And the scarier thing is not having hope,” Stokley said.

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