{"id":434541,"date":"2026-01-28T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434541\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:55:09","slug":"sean-payton-doctors-said-bo-nixs-broken-ankle-was-matter-of-when-not-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434541\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Payton: Doctors said Bo Nix’s broken ankle was matter of when, not if"},"content":{"rendered":"

News of Broncos quarterback Bo Nix\u2019s broken ankle in the divisional round of the playoffs came as a surprise since he played the entire overtime win over the Bills, but head coach Sean Payton indicated on Tuesday the injury was inevitable. <\/p>\n

Payton said that the surgeon that operated on Nix last week said that operation uncovered signs of a problem \u201ccoming sooner than later\u201d for the 2024 first-round pick. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was found was a condition that was predisposed<\/a> \u2014 they always find a little more when they go in,\u201d Payton said in a press conference. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a matter of if, it was a matter of when. When you look at the play and you\u2019re trying to evaluate it \u2014 the doctor, the operating surgeon said that this was going to happen sooner than later.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nix also broke bones in his ankle in high school and college, but Payton said that the team is not concerned about Nix\u2019s long-term health as a result of his latest injury and the subsequent discovery by doctors. Payton said that Nix will \u201cgo about the rehab, proper orthotics, all those things\u201d and that the outlook is \u201cfairly optimistic\u201d about how soon Nix will be ready to return to football activity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News of Broncos quarterback Bo Nix\u2019s broken ankle in the divisional round of the playoffs came as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-434541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434541","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=434541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}