I want to grow and develop into where I can compete and I’m on the same level as those guys,” Bo Nix said of the NFL’s other playoff QBs.

Nix finished his rookie season with 34 total touchdowns, but his impact for a young Broncos team went beyond his numbers.

After five straight years of playoff exits before the Super Bowl, the Buffalo Bills are back in the postseason in 2024 with perhaps their best chance of advancing there under head coach Sean McDermott. It begins Sunday afternoon as the No. 2 Bills host the No. 7 Broncos in the AFC Wild Card round.

Daniels, the dual-threat dynamo behind the Washington Commanders ’ rapid turnaround, and Nix, whose steady playmaking turned the Denver Broncos into one of the league’s biggest surprises, are only the fourth pair of rookie quarterbacks to make the playoffs in the same season after serving as full-time starters.

In a way, you don’t have anything to lose,” Broncos QB Bo Nix said of going into the Bills playoff game as a big underdog.

Broncos quarterback Bo Nix finished his regular season with one more accolade. The rookie was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week for his performance Week 18 in Denver’s playoff-clinching, 38-0 blowout of a largely starter-less Kansas City team Sunday.

Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week following last Sunday's playoff-clinching victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.

The prospect of facing a rookie quarterback in his first playoff game normally would be a lick-their-chops moment for opposing pass rushers. Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix, however, has succeeded this season where so many other rookies who scramble their way into sacks fail.

Since 2016, the Broncos have had seven different Week 1 starters in nine seasons. Nix pulled the emergency brake on the carousel.

Denver's Bo Nix and Washington's Jayden Daniels will try to do something on Sunday that hasn't been done in the NFL in 12 years: Win a playoff game on the road as a rookie quarterback.

The Denver Broncos, led by quarterback Bo Nix, meet the Buffalo Bills, led by quarterback Josh Allen in an AFC Wild Card game on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2024 (1/12/25) at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.