{"id":302237,"date":"2025-08-20T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/302237\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:17:10","slug":"olb-nik-bonitto-returns-to-practice-for-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/302237\/","title":{"rendered":"OLB Nik Bonitto returns to practice for Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto returned to practice for the Broncos on Tuesday after previously undergoing a procedure on his foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good to have him back out here,&#8221; Head Coach Sean Payton said after practice.<\/p>\n<p>Bonitto did not practice against the Cardinals last week or play in Denver&#8217;s preseason win on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Dre Greenlaw also saw increased action on Tuesday, as Payton indicated he would last week.<\/p>\n<p>Payton said guard Nick Gargiulo, who was placed on injured reserve on Sunday, suffered an ACL injury. Gargiulo suffered the season-ending injury during Saturday&#8217;s game against Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a tough loss,&#8221; Payton said.<\/p>\n<p>Payton also said the Broncos, who signed fullback Adam Prentice on Sunday, will continue to &#8220;pay real close attention&#8221; to the waiver wire for tight end and fullback prospects as tight end Nate Adkins recovers from an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nate was one of those players that I don&#8217;t know got a lot of attention, yet there was a lot of respect around the league and in the locker room for the way he did a number of things,&#8221; Payton said. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be good to get him back when we do. In the meantime, we&#8217;ve got to fill that void somehow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto returned to practice for the Broncos on Tuesday after previously undergoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,17416,6,1625,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-302237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-injury-report","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nik-bonitto","17":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115058930087294518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}