Broncos Ditch Alphonso Smith

Oh Field Gulls.

What a disaster.

That is the only way to describe the short Alphonso Smith era in Denver.

The Broncos traded the second-year cornerback to Detroit for tight end Dan Gronkowski. He is a former seventh-round pick who was on the Lions’ practice squad for all of two games last year. That is pretty weak compensation for what turned out to be the No. 14 overall pick of the 2010 draft.

Yes, Smith was essentially the No. 14 pick of this draft. On draft night in 2009, Denver fell in love with the small but decorated Smith as he fell out of the first round. Denver apparently stopped the Wake Forest product’s fall at No. 37 when it sent its 2010 first-round pick (which turned out to be No. 14) to Seattle to take Smith. The Seahawks ended up taking safety Earl Thomas with the pick. He was considered a value pick, but the idea of giving up a future No. 1 pick seemed extreme.

Hahahahaha!

Smith has caused many the community meltdown over at milehighreport. (That’s where I usually hang out, Broncos and Seahawks are my top two teams.) Most of us are relieved he’s gone just because it was always so controversial.

The rest of McD’s draft performance has been pretty impressive – we got quite a haul comparatively from the Cutler trade – but this was a severe enough misstep that it really brings down the average.

All that said, I can’t even imagine what draft day would have been like had we had a third first-round pick in addition to the two we ended up having.