NEW ORLEANS \u2014 The Broncos’ season opener is still two weeks away, but Bo Nix’s connection with Courtland Sutton already appears to be in midseason form.<\/p>\n
Nix capped the starting offense’s preseason action with a 19-yard touchdown pass to Sutton, concluding a three-drive outing for Denver’s first-team unit. The starting offense’s performance helped the Broncos earn a 28-19 win on Saturday over the Saints to cap off a 3-0 preseason.<\/p>\n
“It’s preseason, but we want to win in everything we do,” Head Coach Sean Payton said.<\/p>\n
After an initial three-and-out, the Broncos responded with a pair of scoring drives fueled by the 10-to-14 connection.<\/p>\n
“Well, he means a lot,” Nix said of Sutton after the game. “He’s a veteran for this team. He has a lot of experience. He’s a great receiver. \u2026 He just goes out there and competes. That’s all you really want to ask for [from] a receiver, is a guy that will go out there and give you his all and compete, and he does it at a high level. Been doing it a long time. He’s going to continue to do it this year and beyond.”<\/p>\n
Nix finished Saturday’s preseason finale 10-of-14 for 110 yards, a touchdown and a 118.2 quarterback rating \u2014 and Sutton caught four of those passes for 83 yards in a little more than a quarter of action.<\/p>\n
On a fourth-and-5 near midfield on Denver’s second drive of the game, Nix delivered a perfect back-shoulder pass to Sutton for a 14-yard gain and a first down. Nix then escaped pressure in the pocket and flipped a pass to running back Tyler Badie to push Denver into the red zone, setting up an eventual 32-yard field goal.<\/p>\n
In his final snaps of the preseason, Nix completed all four of his passes for 71 yards, a touchdown and a 158.3 rating on Denver’s third possession \u2014 and 69 of those yards belonged to Sutton. After an unnecessary roughness penalty on New Orleans pushed Denver out of a potential third-and-long, Nix rolled to his left and delivered a sideline strike to Sutton. The Broncos’ top receiver shrugged off contact and continued down the field before being tackled after a 43-yard gain.<\/p>\n
On the next play, Nix went right back to Sutton. And then again two plays later, he stared down a free rusher and lofted a jump ball to Sutton.<\/p>\n
“You know those are going to come up, you know you’re going have to be moved off your platform,” Nix said. “A lot of the big plays happen from a dirty pocket \u2014 whether it’s you’ve got to move one way or a free rusher or you have to get out of the pocket. \u2026 It doesn’t really matter, you’ve got to make the throw.”<\/p>\n
Sutton hauled in the pass to give the Broncos’ starting offense its third scoring drive in six opportunities this preseason.<\/p>\n
“You want to score and get out there,” Payton said after the game. “I thought we did some good things.”<\/p>\n
Now, Nix and the Broncos’ offense will turn their attention to their Week 1 opener against the Titans, which sits just over two weeks away. And while more preparation awaits, they’re eager for their next challenge.<\/p>\n
“Very ready,” Nix said. “Very excited.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2014 The Broncos’ season opener is still two weeks away, but Bo Nix’s connection with Courtland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,925,232,1270,231,258,58164,2426,7,17412,6,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-312214","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-bo-nix","10":"tag-broncos","11":"tag-courtland-sutton","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-denver-broncos-at-new-orleans-saints-2025-pre-3","15":"tag-denverbroncos","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-game-day","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115080383988821063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312214","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=312214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}