College Football Preview: Top 2027 NFL Draft Prospects & Broncos Offseason Needs artwork

College Football Preview: Top 2027 NFL Draft Prospects & Broncos Offseason Needs

DNVR Denver Broncos Podcast

August 7, 2026

With the college football season right around the corner, Jake Schwanitz and Andre Simone go head-to-head to debate their early top-10 prospects for the 2027 NFL Draft.
Speakers: Andre Simone, Jake Schwanitz

Topics: Football, Sports

**Andre Simone** (0:00)
VR, the RavPod.
We're doing it, baby. That's right, live from the Courtois of Kovacs in York, downtown Denver, right above the DMVR Bar. We are in the Toyota Lounge. Doing it up with my guy, the man, the myth, the legend, the Schwan, man. Schwan, man, how are we doing?

**Jake Schwanitz** (0:23)
Doing great, Dre. You know, I've been thinking, and I think we should continue this show for at least another season. How about that?

**Andre Simone** (0:29)
No doubt, renewed for another year. I can't think of the last year we took like a month off.

**Jake Schwanitz** (0:35)
I think that was the longest the show has ever been, at least in my era.

**Andre Simone** (0:40)
I think there was one year where we maybe did the same thing and took July off.
But we're going back to like 23 at least, you know. It's been a minute. I saw you guys in the Broncos pod asking what happened to the Draft pod. I think we scared some people that we took it off air. That we just canceled this bad boy.

**Jake Schwanitz** (1:01)
I think first off we owe an apology. Because the last time we did the show, we were just kind of like, oh yeah, that's just the last one for a while. We knew that. We just didn't actually share that.
That's our fault.

**Andre Simone** (1:14)
Yep. Great at chopping it up about the Draft on here an hour a week. Not the greatest at communicating, announcing.
The head of PR for the Draft pod needs to step it up a bit, I think. In fact, sadly, that's unassigned. So if you're looking to be head of PR for the Draft pod, I don't know, reach out maybe.
How would you do that? Where would you reach out? Who knows? We'll figure it. TBD.

**Jake Schwanitz** (1:44)
Reach out to at Andre Simone on Twitter. I'm sure all your complaints will be heard.

**Andre Simone** (1:50)
He also has a great grip to advise on there, baby. He might be solicited to vote on a Twitter poll. Do not do that. Do not vote.
Yeah, maybe. Sad. Sad, you took me down a sad road.

**Jake Schwanitz** (2:07)
I wish you would have done that.

**Andre Simone** (2:11)
We're trying to accomplish one thing today and one thing only.
Previewing the college football season by giving you our top ten prospects coming into the season. Other things we will be hitting. Percentage said top ten prospect has of dropping to the Broncos.
Do you want to start with a little bit of a moosebush? You know, you're moving up in life, so you got to learn these fancier terms. A moosebush, it's an appetizer you never asked for in even smaller form. And it's kind of like something wacky, you know? It's like, oh, this is a cheese foam on a, you know, it's like a fancy, fancy cracker that we made in-house. Yeah, a freeze-dried cracker made out of some seeds you've never heard of. And you have it in one bite and you're like, good, good. You know, after you were waiting 20 minutes to be seeded and this, that and the other.

**Jake Schwanitz** (3:13)
I'm new to this world too, so I need a little bit of direction. You are, you are. How do I do that?

**Andre Simone** (3:21)
So you'd be open to that instead of jumping right into our top 10s. Okay, how good can this draft class be?

**Jake Schwanitz** (3:29)
As good as any draft class we've recently seen.

**Andre Simone** (3:33)
What about better?

**Jake Schwanitz** (3:36)
Okay, then yes, this could be the best draft class of this decade. Whoa!
It could be.

**Andre Simone** (3:40)
Okay, that's the spicy take I was looking for. It does have...

**Jake Schwanitz** (3:46)
There's some star power here, some serious star power here.

**Andre Simone** (3:49)
Yeah, and at the premium positions.

**Jake Schwanitz** (3:52)
Exactly.

**Andre Simone** (3:53)
Tis a premium position draft class. Probably starting with the wide receivers.

**Jake Schwanitz** (4:01)
The quarterbacks, though.

**Andre Simone** (4:02)
Quarterbacks, edge rushers, offensive tackles, corners.

**Jake Schwanitz** (4:07)
Exactly, yeah.

**Andre Simone** (4:09)
So yeah, definitely agree on that. Your thoughts on this QB class. If you could give me a little preview, how many QBs do you have in your rivaling top 10?

**Jake Schwanitz** (4:20)
Um, I have...
I would not like to share that information. I love this. I love this. I'll just say, I really like the potential of this QB class. It's another one of those years where there's a handful of guys who are technically eligible. Yeah.
Yes, if they do go crazy, it could help out this class. As we've recently seen, though, it just doesn't happen that way. So your CJ Carrs, your Drew Mestamakers, your Drake Lindsies, your, I think Myav is a, is he a?

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