{"id":524620,"date":"2026-01-18T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524620\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:27:12","slug":"qb-bo-nix-suffers-season-ending-ankle-injury-qb-jarrett-stidham-to-start-afc-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524620\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Bo Nix suffers season-ending ankle injury, QB Jarrett Stidham to start AFC Championship Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DENVER \u2014<\/strong> The Broncos will be without starting quarterback Bo Nix for the remainder of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Nix suffered a fracture in his right ankle late in overtime of the Broncos&#8217; 33-30 win over the Bills, and he will undergo season-ending surgery on Tuesday, according to Head Coach Sean Payton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a tough cookie,&#8221; Payton said. &#8220;I said [to him], &#8216;Listen, I believe you&#8217;re the second quarterback in Year 2 to take your team to a championship game. And the first is [Patrick] Mahomes.&#8217; This team, all year, has lost key players. We&#8217;ll rise up for the next challenge, and we&#8217;ll go from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Veteran quarterback Jarrett Stidham will start the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, Jan. 25, and Sam Ehlinger will serve as the Broncos&#8217; No. 2 quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say this, in fairness to what you&#8217;ve seen, which is very limited: He&#8217;s ready,&#8221; Payton said of Stidham. &#8220;He&#8217;s ready. I said this at the beginning of the season, I feel like I&#8217;ve got a [No. 2 quarterback] that&#8217;s capable of starting for a number of teams, and I know he feels the same way. Watch out. Just watch. He&#8217;s experienced, he&#8217;s played in games. They&#8217;re different type players to some degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nix, who joined John Elway as the only quarterbacks in franchise history to throw three touchdown passes in a postseason win, had started all 36 games in his two-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Stidham has started four games in his career and earned a win in his last home start, which came in 2023. In his most recent action, Stidham completed 30-of-38 passes for 376 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions and a 143.0 quarterback rating in the 2025 preseason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a lot of emotions, and then the refocus takes place,&#8221; Payton said of how the team can respond. &#8220;We celebrated the season for [Nix]. Listen, Stiddy&#8217;s ready, and we&#8217;ll be ready for the next challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 The Broncos will be without starting quarterback Bo Nix for the remainder of the postseason. Nix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":524621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[94414,18272,233153,228994,62,52,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-524620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aric-dilalla","tag-bo-nix","tag-buffalo-bills-at-denver-broncos-2025-post-2","tag-playoffs-2025","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115914922148391319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}