{"id":414703,"date":"2026-01-18T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414703\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:10:11","slug":"how-did-denver-broncos-qb-bo-nix-break-his-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414703\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Denver Broncos QB Bo Nix Break His Ankle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23924268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bo-Nix.jpg\" alt=\"Denver Broncos Bo Nix\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\u00a9 Ron Chenoy\/Imagn<\/p>\n<p>In a shocking turn of events,\u00a0Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix will miss the rest of the team\u2019s playoff after suffering a\u00a0broken ankle in Saturday\u2019s win over the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p>Broncos head coach Sean Payton revealed after the game that Nix suffered the injury on the second-to-last play of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/sports\/article\/nfl-denver-broncos-buffalo-bills-inteception-pass-interference\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">33-30 overtime victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There\u2019s no way Bo Nix broke his ankle on this play <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CxubxNdXuO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CxubxNdXuO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 evin (@EvinKnowsBall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvinKnowsBall\/status\/2012712100536160586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Payton meant the scramble on which Nix lost two yards late in the game, which was technically the fourth-to-last play of the game or the kneel down before Will Lutz\u2019s game-winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>Nix was tackled awkwardly by safety Cole Bishop on the scramble. However, he remained in the game for two more plays and video does show Nix hobbling off following the kneel down, during which is was contacted by a Buffalo defensive lineman.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bo Nix\u2019s season ended on a kneel down \ud83d\ude22<\/p>\n<p>Just brutal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IIgwpks7ey\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IIgwpks7ey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oregon Updates (@oregon__updates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oregon__updates\/status\/2012714159872299122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Payton also announced that Nix would have surgery to repair the ankle, ruling him out of Denver\u2019s first appearance in the AFC Championship Game since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL world was stunned by the news of Nix\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did Bo Nix get hurt? What a complete beast to be able to not show how much it hurt,\u201d one fan posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenuinely gutted for the Broncos and Bo Nix\u00a0with the news on the broken ankle. Nobody deserves that,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>Backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham will now start in the AFC Championship Game against either the Houston Texans or New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Ron Chenoy\/Imagn In a shocking turn of events,\u00a0Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix will miss the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14384,4,450,1807,7820,451,3,349,31033,452,453],"class_list":["post-414703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-bo-nix","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-denver-broncos","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}