{"id":506794,"date":"2026-01-17T22:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=506794"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:53:59","slug":"broncos-quarterback-nix-breaks-bone-in-ankle-out-for-postseason","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/broncos-quarterback-nix-breaks-bone-in-ankle-out-for-postseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos quarterback Nix breaks bone in ankle, out for postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Broncos QB Bo Nix will be sidelined for the remainder of the postseason after breaking a bone in his ankle during OT of today\u2019s 33-30 victory against the Buffalo Bills, manager Sean Payton revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos quarterback sustained his problem on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-to-last play of the match, according to his head coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HC Sean Payton announced that QB Bo Nix fractured a bone in his ankle on the second-to-last play of the game and will miss the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>We got your back, \ud83d\udd1f. \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zOGVjxAV5r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zOGVjxAV5r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Broncos (@Broncos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Broncos\/status\/2012711447361368317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bo\u2019s reserve in Denver is Jarrett Stidham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJarrett is ready to play,\u201d Sean shared. \u201cWe are prepared to face our next opponent, no matter who it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stidham, in his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> campaign with the Broncos and 6<sup>th<\/sup> overall in the league, appeared in 1 match in the current campaign and has not attempted a pass in the past 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>Nix was 26-of-46 for 279 yards and 3 TDs while also rushing for 29 yards on 12 carries during the dramatic triumph against Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Denver will play against either the Patriots or the Texans for the AFC title next weekend at Empower Field at Mile High, where the top-seeded Broncos have triumphed in 14 of their past 15 matches. However, now they must do it without their starting quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Broncos QB Bo Nix will be sidelined for the remainder of the postseason after breaking a bone in his ankle during OT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":506795,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27006,16777],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[27007,18128],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Denver received very bad news after the phenomenal win against the Bills.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506796,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/506794\/revisions\/506796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506794"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=506794"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=506794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}