Following the Denver Broncos‘ playoff loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Izzy Nix — the wife of rookie quarterback Bo Nix — took to Instagram to thank the team’s backup quarterbacks for supporting Nix in 2024.
“Will never find the words for this qb room & what they mean to us,” Izzy wrote on her Instagram story. “They were in our corner from start to finish and believed in Bo, when they certainly didn’t have to.”
Izzy included a crying emoji and a blue heart emoji in the caption, and she tagged Stidham’s wife, Kennedy Stidham, and Wilson’s fiancé, Nicolette Dellanno, in the post.
Bo Nix’s wife thanks backup QBs Jarrett Stidham and Zach Wilson for supporting Nix during QB’s rookie season
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Stidham and Wilson are both scheduled to become free agents in March, so it’s possible that Sunday marked their last game as Nix’s teammates.
Despite all competing for the starting QB job this summer, Nix, Stidham and Wilson were close friends this season and they got together for dinner every week with Izzy, Kennedy and Nicolette.
“Those two guys have helped me tremendously,” Nix said of Stidham and Wilson in December. “They’ve been great friends to me and great guys that have my back, that sort of thing off the field. Obviously we’ve been able to have relationships off the field with [our] wives and things like that, so we’re just a close group. I think that plays an important role as this season goes on and gets longer and longer.
“It’s good to get away from football and joke around and not make it so serious all the time. They do a good job of balancing the football life with the off-the-field life. [They are] always teaching me things, and then at the same time, just always keeping it lighthearted. [They are always] reminding me that there’s a lot more to this football thing, but while we’re doing it, we might as well be the best at it.”
Nix, 24, has three more years left on his rookie contract, plus a fifth-year option for the 2028 season. Stidham, 28, and Wilson, 25, will become unrestricted free agents on March 12.
