DENVER BRONCOS CAN GM TED SUNQUIST

The Denver Broncos terminated the contract of GM Ted Sunquist a month before the draft.

Sunquist will not be out of work long is very good at what he does and extremely well organized. Usually a team would never let a front office executive go anywhere until after the draft because of what they know about the prospects and the team's intentions. There have been many cases of teams holding onto the personnel people to the day after the draft and releasing them at that point.


Denver is a team with five starters from the last five drafts, but it also has 19 players no longer in the league. However, the Broncos are not alone. In fact, when you look at the whole league, the last five drafts have produced about 330 starters out of the 704 in the league, but those same five drafts also produced almost exactly the same amount of players who have gone on to other things in life.

How do you measure drafting success in the NFL? The average team produces two starters per draft year over the last five years, or 10 starters overall. The best ratio belongs to the Seahawks, who actually boast 15 starters from the last five years, or three players per draft. The Super Bowl teams this year -- the New York Giants and New England Patriots -- both had 12 starters from the last five drafts