Is Jahdae Barron or RJ Harvey the Denver Broncos’ top prospect? We rank the Top 10

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (0:01)
This is the DNVR Broncos Podcast, live from the Xfinity Studio, our favorite place to be. And today we have a fun show. We are going to be talking through the Broncos' top prospects, which is a fun thing Dre and I did last year, that we thought would be really easy, and then you get into it and realize that it's actually really tricky.
Plus we have to get into all of our vacation destinations for the Broncos' road games this year. We'll do that in the second half of the show. Should be fun.

**Henry Chisholm** (0:30)
Looking forward to it. So define prospects for the people because you're a baseball guy. That's a word they use a lot in baseball, but it's not as common in football.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (0:39)
No, so in baseball, so first of all, you have all the top prospect lists. So there's like three or four different companies that put out like their top 100 for the league and then the top 30 for each team. And I'm not sure, I think they all use very similar rules where it's like maybe once you've played 100 games, you're no longer a prospect in the majors. And so for football, we're making it 500 snaps, either of offense or defense, because it's very different because you don't have like, I guess you have a practice squad, but it's not like there's AAA and AA and A. And so you just wind up with everybody on the same roster.
Yeah. So it's all the players who have played less than 500 snaps in the NFL who are on the Broncos roster. The idea with the ranking is just like a lot of it, just value, like who is the most valuable? And there's different pieces that go into that. Like who, who has the most raw talent? Like if you're like in baseball, you'd say like, Oh, this guy's already in AAA, he's more valuable because he's about to just make the transition versus a guy who is just starting out in like A ball and so he's a lot needs to go right for him to get to that point. So there's, there's like the proximity that makes you more valuable versus like, like Caleb Loner this year versus last year, it's a huge gap because he just already took the red shirt year.

**Henry Chisholm** (1:56)
Right. And let me also ask 500 snaps.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (2:01)
Yep.

**Henry Chisholm** (2:01)
What put that in perspective? Is that a season of playing consistently?

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (2:06)
Here's a good way to do it. So Jonah Ellis is no longer on the list.
Oh, I just pulled up the offense. So Lucas Kroll is no longer on the list. 518 RJ Harvey is on the list. He's played 481 Pat Bryant's at 475

**Henry Chisholm** (2:23)
So Troy Franklin's got to be up close to 1000

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (2:25)
He's up. He's 1056 Marvin Mims 1060 And maybe that's a good way to transition into last year's list because this is something we should do more, but it always slips our mind. We'll do something like what's going to happen this season and then you never talk about again.
But let's look at last year's list if we have that ready, Yaya.
Cool. Yeah, so we did top 20 last year. Number one was Jahdae Barron, who had just been the number one pick. We decide on Jonah Ellis, number two. It helped that he had been... Oh, this is also the live spelling version of the list, which is always different than the, after we make all the corrections version. So this was the live spelling on the show. Jonah Ellis was number two with RJ Harvey, Troy Franklin, then Pat Bryant at number five. For the podcast listeners, I'll keep reading Devon Bailey, Savion Jones, Q Robinson, Dondre Tillman, Alex Palchewski, ten. And then the second half, Chris Abrams Drain at 11, Drew Sanders, 12, Audrick Estimae, 13, Yoma Uzurike, Clay Webb, Frank Crumb, Alex Forsythe, and then Caleb Loner, Jeremy Croshaw, Tyler Bade at 20

**Henry Chisholm** (3:31)
Damn, what a diss to Tyler Bade.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:33)
It's, yeah, it's almost fair not to be included. He had like the proximity thing going for it. Like there's a lot of guys who just like-

**Henry Chisholm** (3:40)
What I'm just saying, like I think it proved out that Croshaw was a better prospect.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:43)
Right, yeah, I mean-

**Henry Chisholm** (3:45)
Let's go back to that list, please.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:46)
Yeah, and I've got it here, too.

**Henry Chisholm** (3:47)
I'm interested in how a semicolon ended up with Savion Jones.

**Ryan Koenigsberg** (3:53)