He effectively led the Denver Broncos to the playoffs, quarterback Bo Nix exposed Monday that he had to play through a number of little back fractures in order to pull that off.
Nix, fresh off the group's 31-7 loss to the Buffalo Bills in the wild-card round of the AFC playoffs on Sunday, stated that he sustained a series of transverse procedure fractures in his back. That injury disappeared in time for the playoffs, however he got a set of essential wins while hammering out it.
Nix stated he decreased throughout their win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Nov. 24. Nix, according to 9News, was sacked by Raiders protective end Tyree Wilson in the 2nd quarter of that video game and had his back twisted awkwardly as he decreased. The transverse procedure is the bony forecast on either side of your vertebrae, and the bones protrude perpendicular to its length when fractured, per the Cleveland Clinic.
After the injury, Nix tossed a set of goals in the 2nd half versus the Raiders. He then returned the next week to lead the group past the Browns in a Monday night video game. Nix then had a bye week to recuperate.
“I wasn't going to miss out on the very first Monday night video game,” he stated, through 9News. “I got treatment on it and after that we were lucky adequate to have an off week the next week and it type of disappeared after that. That minute was bothersome, however all of us have fun with something.”
Nix, who the Broncos took with the No. 12 general choice in 2015's draft, tossed for 3,775 lawns with 29 goals and 12 interceptions this season. He went 13-of-22 for 144 backyards with a goal in Sunday's loss to the Bills. He led the group on the ground with 43 hurrying backyards on 4 brings, too. They were bounced out of the playoffs in the very first round, it was the group's very first postseason look given that their Super Bowl run throughout the 2015 project.
