"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Shortly after Sean Payton was hired as the Denver Broncos' head coach during the 2023 offseason, the team signed three players during the initial hours of free agency. In a quick, decisive nod to Payton's principles of building from the inside out, offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey and guard Ben Powers were awarded robust deals. But the third player in that first wave was quarterback Jarrett Stidham."
"Football fans have spent the past few days trying to get acquainted with the 29-year-old quarterback, who will start for the Broncos in Sunday's AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots ( 3 p.m. ET, Empower Field at Mile High, CBS). Stidham gets the nod after starting quarterback Bo Nix fractured his right ankle in the closing moments of Denver's 33-30 overtime victory over the Buffalo Bills in the divisional round. Nix had started all 17 regular-season games en route to 14-3 mark and the No. 1 seed in the conference, as well as last week's playoff win."
""Stiddy's been waiting for this moment for the entirety of his career," McGlinchey said. "He's more prepared than anybody would be in this situation. And he can ball, he can flat out play quarterback. We've seen it every day in practice. We've seen it in training camp. I have no doubts he's going to go out there and play his butt off.""
Sean Payton was hired as the Denver Broncos' head coach in the 2023 offseason and the team signed three players early in free agency, including offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey, guard Ben Powers and quarterback Jarrett Stidham. Stidham, 29, will start the AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots after Bo Nix fractured his right ankle in the closing moments of Denver's 33-30 overtime divisional-round victory over the Buffalo Bills. Nix had started all 17 regular-season games as the Broncos went 14-3 to earn the No. 1 seed and won last week's playoff game. Teammates described Stidham as prepared and proven in practice.
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