With just three games remaining in the 2025-26 NFL season, four quarterbacks remain: Seattle’s Sam Darnold, New England’s Drake Maye, Los Angeles’ Matthew Stafford, and Denver’s Jarrett Stidham.
Denver will go without starting quarterback Bo Nix when it hosts New England in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, but one of the Broncos’ top offensive linemen could return.
Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix went public for the first time since suffering a season-ending ankle fracture in last week's Divisional Round win over the Buffalo Bills.
Even though the Denver Broncos forced five turnovers against the Buffalo Bills, it was a rough day for the defense overall. The Bills scored on all six drives that didn't end in a turnover.
The best teams do not always win the Super Bowl. Sometimes, great NFL squads have failed to win a playoff game. Here are the best ones since the AFL-NFL merger to fall short of advancing in a postseason bracket.
Jarrett Stidham has waited his entire life for this. For the past three years, he has prepared every day as if he's the Denver Broncos' starting quarterback, and Bo Nix's season-ending ankle injury has made it a reality.
The Denver Broncos are just one win away from competing for a Super Bowl title. However, their entire gameplan has been changed after Bo Nix’s season-ending ankle injury.
Bo Nix missing the AFC Championship still hurts my heart. 10 years after Peyton Manning and Tom Brady’s last dance, we could have had Nix and Drake Maye carry the torch on the same stage.
The stage is now set for the AFC championship game. The No. 1 seed Denver Broncos host the No. 2 seed New England Patriots — a rematch of the 2015 AFC title game.
For years, Thanksgiving belonged to the NFL, but Christmas belonged to the NBA. Occasionally, an NFL game would fall on Christmas, but it was anomalous, even avoided if possible.
Bo Nix's season-ending injury sucked the oxygen out of the Denver Broncos' first playoff win since 2015. But Nix's injury doesn't change what that hard-fought win purchased the Broncos: a chance at advancing to Super Bowl 60.
Current NBC NFL analyst Devin McCourty and Denver Broncos backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham were teammates with the New England Patriots. McCourty shared his thoughts on Stidham as the quarterback steps into the lineup for the AFC Championship Game.
Kickoff: Sunday, 3:00 PM ET After a defensive masterclass in the Wild Card round and another gritty Divisional Round win over Houston, the New England Patriots head to Mile High with a Super Bowl berth on the line.
The AFC Championship Game rarely offers a script this dramatic. On Sunday afternoon at Empower Field, the top-seeded Denver Broncos will host the New England Patriots with a Super Bowl berth on the line after a brutal twist of fate.
The Denver Broncos are hosting the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday. But, they are doing it without starting quarterback Bo Nix.
While Bo Nix's season-ending injury and Jarrett Stidham's subsequent ascension to the starting quarterback job have driven the news cycle, another key storyline is the Denver Broncos' increasingly thin reserves at wide receiver.
The Denver Broncos officially signed WR Brandon Johnson to their practice squad and released C Michael Deiter in a corresponding move, per the NFL Transactions wire. Johnson, 27, originally signed on with the Broncos as an undrafted free agent out of UCF in 2022.
The Broncos will be without their starting quarterback for Sunday’s AFC championship game. There is at least a slight chance their backfield will be at full strength for the contest, however.