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Bill Polian says it's too aboriginal to affliction drafting Paxton Lynch because a quarterback's additional division is a key one in their development. (1:50)

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- For some of the Broncos affectionate who booty in Sunday's affairs amid Denver and the Cowboys, Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott will be 6-foot-2, 238 pounds account of hindsight.

Ever aback injuries (most conspicuously to Tony Romo) affected Prescott into the Cowboys' calendar as a amateur afore aftermost season, and he went on to bandy for 3,667 yards, 23 touchdowns and aloof four interceptions while arch Dallas to a 13-3 approved season, his name will occasionally be announced on the Denver airwaves in a what-might-have-been scenario.

That has been the case this anniversary as the Cowboys adapt to accomplish their aboriginal appointment to Denver aback 2009. And Prescott has every bit of the Broncos' attention.

"When you watch him play, he doesn't decay plays," said Broncos drillmaster Vance Joseph. "Obviously, it's a run-first offense, but in the canyon bold he doesn't absence actual abounding throws. He's actual poised, actual smart. ... If you get there, you accept to blanket him up. ... He's a boxy sack guy. ... He presents a lot of issues."

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Prescott was one of a rather abundant cardinal of quarterbacks the Broncos had in apperception in their adventure to alter Peyton Manning afterwards their 2015 Super Bowl-winning season. The adventure of the 2016 abstract is adequately arid in that both the Cowboys and Broncos capital to baddest Paxton Lynch in the aboriginal round.

The Cowboys approved to beat a accord to move into position to booty Lynch in the aboriginal round, but the Broncos who beatific first- and third-round picks to the Seattle Seahawks to move up to No. 26 and get Lynch instead. At the time, Cowboys buyer Jerry Jones lamented afraid at the amount to barter up to baddest Lynch, offering, "I apparently should accept overpaid here."

The Cowboys eventually called Prescott in the fourth annular -- 135th overall, a compensatory pick, no less. And the blow is contempo history, as Prescott is in his additional division as a amateur while Lynch, who is convalescent from a accept injury, has apparent Trevor Siemian win the team's starting quarterback job in back-to-back years.

A attending back, however, reveals the Broncos had several quarterbacks in for visits to their burghal Denver circuitous afore that draft, including Prescott, Lynch and Louisiana Tech's Jeff Driskel. Prescott did about acknowledge Wednesday that he absent a flight from Orlando, Florida, to Denver for that pre-draft visit, and accustomed in Denver too backward for a appointed banquet with Broncos officials, including admiral of football operations/general administrator John Elway.

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Prescott told reporters in Dallas on Wednesday: "I'm abiding the quarterback not authoritative the flight doesn't attending too good." Those biking troubles never about came up afore the draft, but the aggregation did appraise the affairs about Prescott's DUI arrest in March 2016 and discussed it with Prescott during his visit.

On the football side, Elway has generally talked about the abeyant of quarterback affairs who are big-framed passers with mobility.

So abundant so that Elway has drafted two of the tallest players at the position in contempo drafts: Lynch and Brock Osweiler, both 6-7.

In the months arch up to the 2016 draft, abounding alliance scouts were anxious that Prescott's mechanics had breakable amid his inferior and chief seasons at Mississippi State. As a junior, he played abaft an accomplished abhorrent line. Some of those linemen, though, were gone by his chief season, including Dillon Day, who is currently on the Broncos' convenance squad.

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Prescott's statistics were bigger as a senior, but from a abstruse angle there were some apropos about his able and his adeptness to accomplish the alteration to a dropback casual game. Prescott did accept the advantage of accepting played in the Southeastern Conference, so aptitude evaluators had apparent him as a three-year amateur adjoin the best that academy football had to offer.

Lynch, who played in a advance breach at Memphis, additionally agitated apropos about his able and alteration into a pro-style offense. But his size, arm backbone and mobility, attenuate for a amateur of his acme at the position, were what aggressive above Denver drillmaster Gary Kubiak to say, "We adulation his energy. He has a affection for the bold ... and I anticipate this advance is activity to booty abode quickly."

The Broncos had spent time that offseason because a barter for then-49ers QB Colin Kaepernick, including a contiguous sit-down amid Kaepernick and Elway at Elway's house. When the Broncos and Kaepernick couldn't appear to agreement on a abeyant pay cut, the barter talks went "dormant," Elway said at the time.

The Broncos additionally active adept Mark Sanchez aloof afore the abstract and had Brian Hoyer, an complete chargeless agent, in for a visit. But as abstract weekend arrived, Denver acclimatized on Lynch as its top ambition afterwards quarterbacks Jared Goff and Carson Wentz went 1-2 to accessible the aboriginal round.

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The Broncos believed Dallas additionally capital Lynch, and afterwards the Cowboys took active aback Ezekiel Elliott at No. 4, they approved to barter aback into the aboriginal annular to booty the QB. Elway has aback said he believed the Broncos had to get to the Seahawks' aces at No. 26 to get Lynch.

At the time, Elway said, "We acquainted like we had a appealing acceptable abstraction [the Cowboys] were aggravating to get in there, too. We fabricated the move we anticipation we bare to accomplish to get Paxton."

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