Despite four failed playoff bids, three consecutive losing seasons and multiple failed attempts at finding his team’s next starting quarterback, John Elway is sitting pretty. For the first time since he took over the team’s football operations in 2011, Elway has the means to do almost whatever he wants in remaking the Broncos’ roster this offseason.



Using Spotrac‘s projection of a $199 million salary cap for 2020 (the league will announce the official number in March), the Broncos are expected to have close to $60 million in cap space, which could balloon to more than $80 million with a few veteran cuts. The Broncos also have nine draft picks and could get up to 12 with compensatory picks. Five of those picks will be in the top 100.



Elway changed the course of the franchise in 2012 by signing Peyton Manning, and two years later he changed it again by signing veteran free agents DeMarcus Ware, Aqib Talib, T.J. Ward and Emmanuel Sanders. Elway...