The Denver Broncos have a chance to be really good in 2025.
QB Bo Nix is coming off an excellent rookie year, they made some key offseason additions through free agency and the NFL Draft and their defense might be one of the best in the league.
And even the running back room feels more settled with the additions of RJ Harvey and J.K. Dobbins.
However, perhaps the biggest remaining question for the Broncos is the receiving room. Is it talented enough to help Denver win the AFC West for the first time since 2015?
Well, on Tuesday, Pro Football Focus released its receiving corps rankings and unfortunately the Broncos are near the bottom of the NFL. No. 22 out of 32 teams to be exact.
Here’s what PFF’s Trevor Sikkema had to say, which is more encouraging than the actual ranking itself:
The Broncos earned a team 67.7 PFF receiving grade in 2024, which ranked just 28th in the NFL. But their outlook is better for 2025. Courtland Sutton still leads the way after posting a 77.0 PFF receiving grade last season, and DeVaughn Vele and Marvin Mims Jr. earned 70.0-plus marks, too. The arrow is pointing up for Denver.
The team also added tight end Evan Engram, whose potential to be a 100-target player will be a welcome piece of the puzzle after Lucas Krull led all Broncos tight ends with just 23 targets in 2024.
The addition of Engram should definitely be a big one. He could be Denver’s best tight end since Julius Thomas. The Broncos also really like rookie wide receiver Pat Bryant, and hopefully Troy Franklin can make a leap in his second year and find some of that chemistry he had with Nix at Oregon.
Meanwhile, Sutton is clearly the No. 1 wideout, Mims flashed big time late last year and Vele delivered a solid rookie campaign despite being a seventh-round draft pick.
Around the AFC West, the Chiefs receiving corps is ranked 14th, the Raiders are 25th and the Chargers check in at 27th. It’s not a strength of what’s considered to perhaps be the best division in football.
We’ll see how it all shakes out in 2025, but if the Broncos’ pass-catchers can overachieve, they’re a threat to win perhaps 11 or 12 games.
To see the full rankings, click here.
