{"id":416941,"date":"2026-01-18T07:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:31:08","slug":"nix-out-for-remainder-of-postseason-with-broken-bone-in-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416941\/","title":{"rendered":"Nix out for remainder of postseason with broken bone in ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix will miss the remainder of the postseason after sustaining a broken bone in his ankle during Saturday&#8217;s divisional-round win over the Buffalo Bills, head coach Sean Payton announced, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2012710025828126988?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network&#8217;s Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nix suffered the injury near the end of overtime on the second-to-last play, according to Payton. The passer will undergo surgery Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s the play on which Broncos coach Sean Payton said QB Bo Nix suffered a broken bone in his ankle that will require surgery and end his season, pressing Jarrett Stidham into the lineup for next week\u2019s AFC Championship Game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2QvotSfmJR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2QvotSfmJR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2012714963597504908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Stidham will be the starting quarterback for the AFC Championship Game, which will be played in Denver. The Broncos&#8217; opponent will either be the New England Patriots or Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>Nix completed 26 of 46 passes for 279 yards, three touchdowns, and one interception against the Bills.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 first-round pick led the Broncos to the No. 1 seed in the AFC after going 14-3 in the regular season. Nix threw 25 touchdowns to 11 interceptions and added five scores on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Stidham has made four career starts, though none have come in the postseason. He owns a 59.4% completion rate with eight touchdowns to eight interceptions. He played one snap this season: a kneel down on the final play of a blowout victory over the Dallas Cowboys in Week 8.<\/p>\n<p>A win in the AFC title game would send the Broncos to their first Super Bowl since the 2015 season, when Peyton Manning and Co. secured the franchise&#8217;s third Lombardi Trophy.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix will miss the remainder of the postseason after sustaining a broken bone in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-416941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}