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NFL Draft 2011: Should Broncos Pair Von Miller With Marvin Austin?

April 22, 2011   ·     ·   Jump to comments

I have previously written that the Denver Broncos should consider drafting Von Miller over Marcell Dareus simply because Miller is too hard to pass up.
But my fellow Broncos fans here at Bleacher Report are mostly sold on Dareus. So, how about a compromise?
Dareus can help the Broncos eat us space and stop the run, and that defensive line is certainly a big question mark now that Jamal Williams and Justin Bannan are gone. Stopping the run is a priority but finding a guy who can rush the passer and who, by all accounts, seems to have special qualities—Derrick Thomas-like qualities—well that should also be a priority for the Denver Broncos.
John Elway has said recently that he would personally like to find the kind of players that he hated playing against. I’m guessing that Elway hated playing against Derrick Thomas, and Von Miller is starting to get comparisons to Derrick Thomas, so maybe we can just connect the dots?
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