After spending most of 2025 banged up, Nik Bonitto has taken corrective measures.
The Broncos outside linebacker underwent surgery on his wrist this week, multiple sources told The Denver Post. After originally injuring his wrist in the Broncos’ Week 2 loss to the Indianapolis Colts — self-inflicted, slamming the ground after the Colts’ walk-off win — Bonitto played the rest of the season with a large club on his right hand.
Sources said the procedure was simply a cleanup and not serious.
Bonitto’s production waned for a 10-game stretch midseason, as he admitted to The Post after one game that it had been “a long season.” He played a game against the Commanders with a sudden large brace on his right arm, and had a bone spur surgically removed from his foot in the preseason.
Still, though, the club didn’t exactly hurt his overall output in 2025. Bonitto finished the season with a career-best 14 sacks and 28 quarterback hits in 17 games, and attended the Pro Bowl earlier this week in San Francisco.
“Individually, I had a great year, and I still feel like I can get better, and so can the team,” Bonitto told The Post at Monday’s Pro Bowl practice. “So, I have no regrets at this year.”
Bonitto, though, missed out on a second straight AP All-Pro selection by exactly one vote. At a year-end press conference, outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper said he believed Bonitto got “snubbed,” and Bonitto echoed the same in San Francisco.
“1000% — I knew I should’ve been one of those guys,” Bonitto said. “But at the end of the day, I wasn’t. And that’s just kinda gonna push me harder to be that, and not make it even close to where they can keep me out again. So, just have a lot of offseason work that’ll go into it.”
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