DENVER \u2014\u00a0Bo Nix’s 21-yard touchdown toss to R.J. Harvey two plays after hooking up with new speedster\u00a0Jaylen Waddle\u00a0for 35 yards highlighted the Denver quarterback’s successful return from a broken ankle in the Broncos’ 33-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Nix’s second and final series ended with a 53-yard field goal from Wil Lutz, but Pierre Strong Jr. returned the ensuing kickoff 68 yards, setting up Trey Smack’s first of four field goals, a 51-yarder that tied it at 10.<\/p>\n
Nix completed 6 of 9 passes for 76 yards and the touchdown in his first live action for the Broncos (1-1) since breaking his right ankle against Buffalo in the playoffs seven months ago. He underwent surgery in January and had a follow-up procedure to remove bone spurs in the spring.<\/p>\n
The Packers (1-1) snapped Denver’s eight-game winning streak in the pre-season.<\/p>\n
Jordan Love drove Green Bay on a 12-play, 63-yard touchdown drive in his only series, which he capped with an 11-yard touchdown throw to Lloyd for a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n
That series looked short-lived when cornerback Riley Moss recovered Christian Watson’s fumble on the second play of the game, but a review determined Watson’s knee was down just as Pat Surtain II was ripping the ball out of Watson’s arms.<\/p>\n
Moss, who’s had a\u00a0terrific training camp\u00a0and had an interception in Denver’s\u00a027-7\u00a0win over Atlanta in the Broncos’ preseason opener, left the game with a rib injury later in that drive and didn’t return.<\/p>\n
Former University of Colorado receiver Will Sheppard’s toe-dragging 2-yard touchdown catch from Tyrod Taylor gave Green Bay a 17-10 lead and Smack kicked field goals of 59 and 44 yards sandwiched around Mark Perry’s interception of Broncos backup Jarrett Stidham’s pass to send Green Bay into halftime with a 23-10 lead.<\/p>\n
Jaden Nixon’s 3-yard TD run made it 30-13 and Smack added a 38-yard field goal with 1:05 remaining.<\/p>\n
Packers: Host Arizona on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Broncos: Host Minnesota on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014\u00a0Bo Nix’s 21-yard touchdown toss to R.J. Harvey two plays after hooking up with new speedster\u00a0Jaylen Waddle\u00a0for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-867285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867285","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=867285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}