Broncos draft: Don’t “pass” on first-round QBs

Re: “Broncos draft preview: Denver needs help on defensive line,” April 15 sports story

Forget about “needs” for a moment. You’ve got the most incredible quarterback class in a generation. The ones that will define NFL football when they hit their prime.

I’m a huge fan of the former PAC-12, and I don’t think it’s crazy to take the Huskies’ Michael Penix Jr. or the Ducks’ Bo Nix, assuming Denver owns the number 12 pick.

I understand the game has changed as far as which positions are most valued. This leads some analysts to project only four or five quarterbacks will be selected in the first round. (How unimaginative!)

I’d love to see Denver go bold with a Pac-12 quarterback in the first round. If they do, it will break into the headlines of Jayden Daniels, J.J. McCarthy, and Drake Maye regarding who was the best non-Caleb Williams QB pick.

Adam Silbert, New York

Close the curtains on political theater

Re: “House speaker pushes ahead on aid amid Republican revolt,” April 17 news story

Thank you, House Speaker Mike Johnson, for having a spine and doing what you were sent to Washington to do. The continual political theater by some (MTG) just gets so nauseating.

Gary Bagstad, Denver

Locked, loaded and/or lost

Re: “Lawmaker apologizes for leaving gun in Capitol bathroom,” April 12 news story

Whenever you report on a legislator misplacing a loaded handgun, or trying to bring one on an airplane, or having one stolen from a car, etc., you don’t really need to put an “R” behind their names … that’s a given! They’re also the ones who fight so hard to defeat safe storage requirements. Go figure.

Steve Caplan, Durango

Protect wolves not only from torture, but from unethical hunting too

Re: “Muzzling and parading injured wolf through bar a brazen act of cruelty,” April 17 commentary

Imagine chasing a wolf with a snowmobile and running it over. The wolf is disabled, so you take it home, perhaps to show your family and take pictures. With its mouth muzzled, you then take the still-alive wolf to a bar for all your friends to see. You then drink beers with your buddies and some people shoot videos of the wolf lying disabled, muzzled, and suffering on the floor. Finally, sources say the wolf was taken outside and shot, dead. This is the story reported about Cody Roberts of Wyoming based on videos and eyewitnesses.

Cody is the new poster child for everything that’s wrong with the state management of wolves. Ever since Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., orchestrated the removal of federal protections for gray wolves in 2009, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho have unleashed a barrage of policies that have resulted in the slaughter of wolves numbering in the thousands. Hunting, trapping, and strangulation (snaring) are some of the tactics employed by “sportsmen.” Don’t forget poisoning, killing wolf pups in their dens, and state-sanctioned aerial gunning and bounties. It’s been a bloodbath.