Colin Cowherd recently agreed that Denver is “the sexy pick” to lead the AFC. But it’s not just the performance of last season, which Sean Payton has done his best to downplay. “So it’s not, ‘Let’s run it back.’ I hate that term. It’s not, ‘Let’s run it back.’ Let’s understand one thing: it is anything but that,” Payton said last week at the NFL annual meeting. With the addition of Waddle, many think like Cowherd that Denver has the strongest overall roster in the AFC West, possibly the AFC, and will the be the team to beat.

Source: New York Times April 11, 2026 17:02 UTC