National Football League Roundup

Picture this: It’s the summer of 2027, and two emerging stars are making Coors Field a true baseball draw again. The Rockies are competitive for the first time in a decade, and just wrapped up a critical late-August series win over the Dodgers. Chase Dollander spun a gem to catapult Colorado into first place in the NL West, and first-time all-star Jordan Beck hit the game-winning homer, his 30th of the year. While that may seem like a purple-tinted tableau right now, as the Rockies are tracking toward another 100-loss season, it could be reality.

Day 1: Broncos make big bet on Nix | Renck on Payton’s play for Bo | Day 1 winners, losers | Grading Broncos’ Day 1 | Brief history of QB draft picks | National media grades Nix pick Day 2: Broncos grab Elliss | Nix on processing Payton’s offense | Keeler on Nix embracing Denver | Grading Broncos’ Day 2 | Best available on Day 3 NFL draft tracker: Picks, instant reaction and more live coverage 11:55 a.m.: The fifth round is upon us, y’all.

The dorks at The Grading The Week offices have few commandments, but we’re kind of worried that the Broncos just broke Rule No. 8: If thou winneth a majority — or all — of thy championships in a particular uniform, thou must not change or mothball that uniform, lest thou land on the wrong side of karma. Why hello there, Damani Leech! Team GTW doesn’t fear change but we’re also suckers for tradition.

The thing about the Nuggets as champions: They never need to say, “We are the best.” Everybody knows it. Contrast them with the Lakers, who are like the kid in high school who gives himself a nickname. All the Nuggets do is win. All the Lakers do is whine. And the Lakers don’t discriminate.

Former Valor Christian football and basketball star Roger Rosengarten watched his dream turn into a reality on Friday night. The Baltimore Ravens took Rosengarten, a Highlands Ranch native, in the second round (62nd overall) of the NFL draft. Rosengarten will join a Ravens draft class that currently includes Clemson cornerback Nate Wiggins, who was taken 30th overall on Thursday. When Rosengarten received word that he was going to Baltimore, the first thing that came to his mind was the opportunity to block for quarterback and 2-time MVP Lamar Jackson. “That’s an elite level quarterback.

For all the talk on what he is, or what he will be … let’s start with who Bo Nix isn’t. He’s not Russell Wilson. Thank goodness. “I know my role, OK?” David Morris, Bo Nix’s personal QB coach and founder of QB Country, told me with a chuckle. “And I’m not up there to try and tell Sean Payton how to coach quarterbacks.