{"id":406056,"date":"2011-04-29T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/broncos-choose-lb-miller-with-2nd-pick-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T00:22:21","slug":"broncos-choose-lb-miller-with-2nd-pick-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/broncos-choose-lb-miller-with-2nd-pick-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos choose LB Miller with 2nd pick (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44.1405184175\">\n<p>ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)\u2014The <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/den\/\">Denver Broncos<\/a> selected Texas A&#038;M linebacker Von Miller with the second pick of the NFL draft Thursday night as they began fixing the league\u2019s worst defense.<\/p>\n<p>John Elway had gushed over the premier pass-rusher in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off the worst season in their 51-year history, the Broncos\u2019 top priority was fixing a defense that gave up a whopping 471 points. The second selection was the highest in team history following a 4-12 debacle that cost Josh McDaniels his job as coach and de facto general manager and led to a front office shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>Elway was brought in as chief of football operations and he hired John Fox as coach and empowered general manager Brian Xanders to help rebuild the Broncos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/57f03c2a1304037094.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nfl\/SIG=124s2q9oh\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news?slug=ap-nfldraft-broncos-miller\" title=\"Broncos choose LB Miller with 2nd pick (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broncos choose LB Miller with 2nd pick (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)\u2014The Denver Broncos selected Texas A&#038;M linebacker Von Miller with the second pick of the NFL draft Thursday night as they began fixing the league\u2019s worst defense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":406057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Broncos choose LB Miller with 2nd pick (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/broncos-choose-lb-miller-with-2nd-pick-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Broncos choose LB Miller with 2nd pick (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. 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