DENVER \u2014\u00a0Bo Nix’s last touchdown pass came just over seven months ago, as he dropped a perfect pass into Marvin Mims Jr. in the late stages of regulation against the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n
While the stakes weren’t quite the same on Friday night in the Broncos’ preseason home opener against the Packers, Nix got back to throwing touchdowns in his home stadium.<\/p>\n
“It was like riding a bike,” said Nix of his return to game action.<\/p>\n
The third-year quarterback led the Broncos to scores on each of his two possessions, and he completed 6-of-9 passes for 76 yards, a touchdown and a 129.9 passer rating.<\/p>\n
“It was awesome,” quarterback Sam Ehlinger said of Nix’s performance. “I thought he did a great job. Right back to postseason form, really. Didn’t miss a beat. Really happy for him. He’s in a great spot. He’s been looking good, and clearly he’s feeling good.”<\/p>\n
Nix’s two biggest plays came on third downs on the first possession. He first found Jaylen Waddle for a 35-yard gain on third-and-5 from Denver’s 40-yard line and then connected with RJ Harvey on a 21-yard score on a wheel route.<\/p>\n
“It felt great,” Nix said of the opening drive. “Just like a typical year, going out for the first drive, there are always going to be some different things that you can grow from. I felt like for the first drive of the season, it was solid.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014\u00a0Bo Nix’s last touchdown pass came just over seven months ago, as he dropped a perfect pass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":979864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,925,232,231,258,2426,7,17412,128228,6,1004],"class_list":["post-979863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-aric-dilalla","tag-bo-nix","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-game-day","tag-green-bay-packers-at-denver-broncos-2026-pre-2","tag-nfl","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117137615339583116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979863","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=979863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}