Adam Gotsis, once selected in the second round of the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos, is going to be done with the team following four unproductive seasons.
The Broncos have reportedly decided that they will not re-sign the 27-year old Gotsis who is coming off a season where he didn’t register a sack and ended with him tearing his ACL.
Gotsis will have to rehab the injury over the summer and then hope to catch on with a different team.
For the Broncos, it is clearly time to wash their hands of Gotsis. Taken with the No. 63 overall pick in the 2016 draft, Gotsis tallied 109 total tackles and just five sacks during his time in Denver. He was an average player who had likely realized his full potential.
The team hopes that he will be the last second-round pick that doesn’t pan out, at least for a while.
Since drafting Gotsis in the second round, the Broncos have taken DeMarcus Walker, Courtland Sutton, Dalton Risner and Drew Lock in the second round of the three subsequent drafts.
Lock appears to be the future at quarterback, Sutton had a huge year in 2019 and Risner was probably the team’s best offensive lineman as a rookie. There is still hope for Walker.
That all sounds much better than the second-round picks taken in the four drafts prior to the year that Gotsis came aboard.
2015- Ty Sambrailo
2014- Cody Latimer
2013- Montee Ball
2012- Brock Osweiler
Derek Wolfe was also chosen in the early portion of the second round in 2012 after the Broncos traded out of the first round, but not much more needs to be said about the other four guys here. Unfortunately, none of them worked out and in the case of everyone but Osweiler, they were complete busts.
Since selecting Gotsis, John Elway has been able to hit on a much higher percentage of his second-round picks than he did with him and before him.
Hopefully, for Gotsis, he catches on somewhere and becomes an integral part of a team’s defense, but he was never a good pick for the Broncos, who really reached on him in 2016.