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The Denver Broncos took the field for their first day of practice for mandatory minicamp and Bo Nix was back on the field for the first time since having ankle surgery.
Following practice, Nix to put to rest any outside concerns and shared insight into what led to the more recent cleanup procedure.
It was a welcome sight on Tuesday morning as Bo Nix took the field in a helmet and jersey, participating in team stretch, quarterback drills, and then group work with wide receivers and running backs.
He threw quite a bit during these periods, but did not participate in any team drills as the Broncos are bringing him along. We know that Nix will be fully cleared before training camp even begins, but if it were up to Bo he’d be full go right now.
“Yes, I could go full go right now if they wanted me to,” Nix said.
What ultimately led to the cleanup procedure just over a month and a half ago was a bone spur that was giving him some discomfort. Nix said that it’s something he could have played on all season, but because he was so far ahead in his rehab, he wanted to get it removed so that he could be pain-free all season.
“The first one obviously right after the season, non-weight bearing for a couple of weeks, get back going,” Nix said. “I felt pretty good. Still had a little bit of an issue with bone spurs, so what we did was, even though I probably could have gone again, done it, done the whole season again, it was just aggravating me for too long. So, what we did was, since I was a little bit ahead, thought it was best to go ahead and decompress it a little bit and then still have plenty of time to get back for the summer, to prepare for the season.”
Bo’s doctors told him his ankle looks good as new. One thing Sean Payton said to us last week is that Bo’s mobility and how it’s used within the offense isn’t going to change. Bo confirmed that on Tuesday.
“Well, my concern is, they say it’s back healthy as good as new,” Bo joked. “I hadn’t really been like that in a couple of years, so my concern is maybe I’ll move around a bit better.”
Jaylen Waddle has been the talk of Denver since arriving via trade and in the practices we’ve been able to see, it’s easy to see that he’ll be a needle mover for the offense.
“There’s an element of explosiveness that I think as an offense, we’ve lacked for a couple of years,” Nix said of Waddle. “We’ve had plenty of explosive plays, plenty of points, all that kind of stuff. We’ve made great strides, but there is a level of explosiveness that a guy...
