The Denver Broncos landed the playmaking tight end Jake Butt out of Michigan, landing the Ozzie Newsome and John Mackey Award winner with the No. 145 pick of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Although the 6-foot-6, 250-pound Butt could miss a chunk of the 2017 season recovering from an ACL injury suffered in the Orange Bowl, Broncos Country went wild with the selection.
Over the past two years, Denver has yielded just six touchdowns from the tight end position, including only two from the position in 2016. At Michigan, Butt scored 11 touchdowns, including four last year. Butt is expected to send those numbers back to where they were in 2013 and ’14, when weapons like Julius Thomas recorded 12 touchdowns in each season.
In a win against Colorado early in 2016, Butt had seven catches for 87 yards.
John Elway was thrilled about the pick. The team at Mile High Sports was ecstatic as well, as were a number of other members of the Denver media. Here’s what they had to say about Denver’s big Butt pick…
We were holding our breath these last few picks hoping to get Michigan TE Jake Butt. A top-notch TE we're fortunate to select in the 5th.
— John Elway (@johnelway) April 29, 2017
Jake Butt is a great pick in the 5th at a position of need. I'm not as down on this draft as you guys..
— Ryan Edwards (@redwardsradio) April 29, 2017
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Jake Butt. Good at football. #Broncos #NFLDraft pic.twitter.com/5BZuXuhze1
— Sayre Bedinger (@SayreBedinger) April 29, 2017
@JBooty_88 Welcome to #BroncosCountry
Kick some ass!!
— Benny Bash🎧 (@TheBennyBash) April 29, 2017
#Broncoshope he'll be ready for the start of the regular season. He's a playmaker. Great tight end in an all-time tight end class. Great.
— Jake Marsing (@JakeDMarsing) April 29, 2017
Great pick for the #Broncos @ 145 taking TE Jake Butt. Incredible value in the 5th round. If he wasn't injured could've gone in top 2 rounds
— Ryan Edwards (@redwardsradio) April 29, 2017
Of course, the Butt jokes were… prevalent…
You can never have too many Butts. Everybody knows that.
— J D T (@BroadcastJesse) April 29, 2017
My 4-year-old likes to get out of the bathtub, dance and sing, "Butt Butt Butt Butt Butt — Butt! Butt!" So she will love Jake Butt.
— Andrew Mason (@MaseDenver) April 29, 2017
Loooooooove the Butt pick. #broncos pic.twitter.com/E9n4xE7Drj
— Vic Lombardi (@VicLombardi) April 29, 2017
Butt clearly is in on the joke, with his own Twitter handle @JBooty_88
