Broncos quarterback Bo Nix was once one in every of six avid gamers named a workforce captain Wednesday, turning into the primary Denver rookie to earn the honour since Corridor of Famer Floyd Little in 1967.
The Broncos avid gamers voted for the workforce captains, and trainer Sean Payton mentioned Nix getting the nod speaks volumes.
“That isn’t one thing that occurs that ceaselessly,” Payton mentioned. “I believe it is one thing you earn. Those guys — they all voted on those guys. It is almost definitely as blank a end result as I might observed shortly relative to these avid gamers that have been all decided on. It is peculiar for a rookie to get made captain, and but via nature that place to some extent is main. That was once one thing that organically takes position all the way through the spring and coaching camp and is going from there.”
Nix, who will grow to be the primary rookie quarterback to begin a Broncos season opener since Corridor of Famer John Elway in 1983, was once formally named a starter days sooner than the workforce’s preseason finale towards the Arizona Cardinals.
Payton mentioned a rookie getting selected as a captain hasn’t ever came about at the groups he is coached.
“It is a first for me,” Payton mentioned. “Simply say rookie, length, in equity to the method. I believe it’s what it’s. I believe it is a credit score to him, and I believe his teammates felt that he belonged in that place.”
Broad receiver Courtland Sutton, guard Quinn Meinerz, cornerback Pat Surtain II, linebacker Alex Singleton and kicker Wil Lutz have been additionally named Broncos captains.
Denver decided on Nix, 24, with the twelfth pick out on this 12 months’s NFL Draft out of Oregon. He finished 23 of 30 makes an attempt for 205 yards and two touchdowns in two preseason video games.
The Broncos open the season at the highway towards the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
–Box Degree Media
