ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 A pair of Broncos defenders have earned more league-wide recognition.<\/p>\n
Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto and cornerback Pat Surtain II were named to the 2025 Sporting News All-Pro team, the outlet announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Broncos’ two selections were tied for the most in the NFL.<\/p>\n
Bonitto, a back-to-back Pro Bowler, is a Sporting News All-Pro for the first time in his career. He recorded a career-high 14 sacks and 28 quarterback hits to go with two forced fumbles and 14 tackles for loss. He also had a sack and a pair of forced fumbles in Denver’s Divisional Round win over the Bills. Bonitto also earned PFWA honors this year.<\/p>\n
Surtain, meanwhile, is a three-time Sporting News All-Pro. He also earned the nod in 2022 and 2024. Surtain also earned Pro Bowl, AP All-Pro and PFWA All-AFC accolades for his 2025 campaign. He recorded double-digit passes defensed for the fifth time in his career and posted the league’s third-highest tight-window throw rate, according to NextGen Stats.<\/p>\n
The team was voted on by the league’s head coaches and coordinators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 A pair of Broncos defenders have earned more league-wide recognition. Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,6,1625,8206,1004],"class_list":["post-714403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-aric-dilalla","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nik-bonitto","tag-patrick-surtain-ii","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714403","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=714403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}