Bo Nix

Denver Broncos·#10UNDERPAID

Pos QBHt 6'2"Wt 217 lbExp 2 yrCollege Oregon

Updated September 21, 2026

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Model Score

82.2 MODEL

2024

82.6

2025

82.2

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Season Stats · 1 games

131

Pass Yds

Pass TD

INT

60.7%

Comp %

Rush Yds

Rush TD

7.4

Fantasy PPG

Advanced Metrics EPA & Next Gen Stats

-15.4

Total EPA

-0.449

EPA / dropback

2.98s

Time to throw

4.3

Avg air yards

10.7%

Aggressiveness

35 yd

Longest comp (air)

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 12 · Denver Broncos · 2024

Auburn (SEC)

Taken

#12

where he actually went

Consensus board

33rd

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

among QB in our college data

He went well ahead of consensus.

In college · 2019-2023 · 61 games

15,252 pass yds, 86 TD, 22 INT, 64.6% completions

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Comps

College career

his college career vs theirs

Jayden Daniels84%Zach Wilson80%Ben Roethlisberger79%

STM Take

Nix posted STTM #14 tier 4 as a rookie and held the trajectory at #11 tier 3 in year two, the kind of two-year continuity rookies in this range rarely produce. The case is real but it is a tier-3 case, not a tier-1 one. Sean Payton's offense gives him a structurally high floor; the ceiling argument needs more vertical aggression than the 2025 profile showed.

Nix was born in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and played under his father at Pinson Valley in Alabama before three years at Auburn and two at Oregon, where he won 2023 Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year and set the FBS single-season completion percentage record at 77.45 percent. Denver took him 12th overall in the 2024 NFL Draft and named him the starter as a rookie. He led the Broncos to the playoffs in year one and to a division title plus a playoff win in year two, both firsts for Denver since 2015.

Strengths

Two consecutive top-15 finishes to start a career, with a division title and playoff win in his second year.
Recent game floor is genuinely steady, with no zero-point weeks in the back half of 2025 and games clustered between 10 and 29 PPR.

Concerns

Two tier-3-or-worse seasons with no statistical signal pointing toward a tier-1 jump in year three.
Sean Payton offense is structurally conservative on attempts; the rushing component (786 career yards, 9 TDs) isn't large enough to lift the ceiling on its own.

What to watch: Whether Payton expands the deep-shot menu in year three; the tier-1 case requires more downfield volume than 2025 produced.