Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix (10) celebrates after a touchdown at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
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Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos just had a night to forget on Monday. In their first game of the 2026 NFL season and with millions watching the game from everywhere, the Broncos were taken by the Kansas City Chiefs to the woodshed and handed Sean Payton's squad a 31-10 loss at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
Nix and the Broncos' offense struggled to put together meaningful drives and even had two scoreless quarters. He reflected on that during the postgame press conference.
“As a whole offense, a whole team, we just didn't play really good,” the 26-year-old Nix said after the game (h/t Zac Stevens of DNVR Broncos).
Neither Nix nor Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was spectacular under center in this MNF matchup, but between the two, it was clear that the Broncos signal-caller had a worse evening.
Nix finished with just 131 passing yards and a touchdown with an interception on 17-of-28 pass completions. The Chiefs' defense also sacked him four times for a loss of 16 yards for Denver. In addition, the former Oregon Ducks star quarterback fumbled the ball three times and lost one of those.
As a team, Denver only had nine first downs and went 2-of-12 on third downs. The Chiefs had 392 total yards to only 176 by the Broncos, who have plenty of questions to answer on offense before they return to the field for a Week 2 battle against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The loss to the Chiefs, if anything, was an early wake-up call for Denver, which just reached the AFC Championship Game a season ago.