Even months after defeating the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50, the Denver Broncos are still winners after they moved up in the first round to get quarterback Paxton Lynch.

At least thats what Peter King thinks.

King stated in his special Friday edition of MMQB that, “The Super Bowl Champs win the first round of the draft, too.”

“The story is not just that Denver traded up five spots in the round, from 31 to 26 with Seattle, to take Lynch,” says King.”The story also is what a good job GM John Elway did in managing a minefield situation after the decline and retirement of Peyton Manning, with the mega-expectations that come with trying to repeat as champs.”

King is right. Elway and the Broncos have had quite an interesting few months.

Elway has shown a tremendous talent for being adaptive this offseason. After losing Brock Osweiler to a somewhat ridiculous contract offered by the Texans, he found a serviceable talent in Mark Sanchez for next to nothing. With only Sanchez and Trevor Siemian on the roster, Elway continued to look for Manning’s successor, but remained unwilling to overspend on resources to do so, which some took as arrogant.

Between the 49ers dabbling in trade talks for Colin Kaepernick, and the Philadelphia Eagles trying to offer up another quarterback in Sam Bradford, Elway remained patient knowing that the asking price was not worth the value of talent. This ideology continued with other rumored quarterbacks like Robert Griffin III, Josh McCown, and Brian Hoyer. If the price was not right, Elway was not interested. There were times that Elway looked as if he was in quite the predicament, but the books on the quarterback search were officially closed when Paxton Lynch was still sitting there at the 26th spot in the NFL draft.

Now, Elway looks like a genius.

The Broncos gave up their 31st and 94th overall pick to move up and snag the 6’7 quarterback out of Memphis. Lynch is projected to sign a contract worth about $9.48 million over four years, far less then the $11.9 that Kaepernick is slated to make this upcoming season.

“I just think there’s always more than one solution to a problem. It may not be exactly the solution you’d want, but in football, in forming a roster, it’s not about taking the easy way—it’s about taking the right way,” Elway said late Thursday night. “All the resources you have go into building your team, and if you use too many resources in one area, you have to account for that in another area. So I am comfortable how we used our resources here.”

If there were ever any doubts that John Elway is not the right man for the job, they should be officially buried.