A playoff berth, Sean Payton told reporters Sunday night, was nice. Just nice. Because these Broncos have much larger goals — the division, the AFC and a Super Bowl — after beating the Packers 34-26 to extend an 11-game winning streak. 2025’s dream season marches on.
Here is The Denver Post’s stock report from a shootout win over Green Bay.
Stock up
Zach Allen: The man is inevitable. Quiet Thanos. A 285-pound titan who holds opposing offensive lines in the palm of his hand. Allen’s 2024 earned him a second-team All-Pro nod after recording a league-best 40 quarterback hits in 16 games, an absurd number for an interior defensive lineman. How’s this for an encore? Allen’s now up to 40 QB hits in just 14 games in 2025, after smacking the Packers’ Jordan Love six times Sunday afternoon.
Former Broncos legend and current Commanders pass-rusher Von Miller told Denver Post columnist Troy Renck in early December that Allen was the key to Denver’s defense. Miller’s not wrong. The Broncos’ ability to create pressure starts and often ends with Allen, collapsing stars from the interior and paving the way for edge rushers or Vance Joseph blitzes to finish the job. Allen won’t get many votes for Defensive Player of the Year this season, but he probably should.
Troy Franklin: No single player on the Broncos’ roster has ping-ponged more between the Stock Up and Stock Down sections of this entry with each passing week. But after a standout game against the Packers on Sunday — six catches on six targets, 85 yards, a touchdown — Franklin sits with 57 catches for 626 yards and six touchdowns in 14 games in 2025. That’s a more-than-acceptable line for a Year Two leap in Denver.
Overall, Sunday was Franklin’s best game of the season. His strength at both the catch point and the top of his route is the key to his ceiling as a receiver; against the Packers, Franklin created massive cushions for himself off separation and showcased sticky hands. Bo Nix’s end-of-third-quarter touchdown connection with Franklin was notable for quarterback-receiver timing on a tight window to the end zone, a welcome development for the Broncos in this stretch run.
Keep thinking about this throw. This was heat check on heat check. Also a perfect example of how far Bo Nix has come from first quarter of the year. This is a whole new level of footwork/poise.
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— Luca Evans (@bylucaevans) December 15, 2025
Reserve OLBs: It was telling, first off, that Joseph had enough trust in reserve outside linebackers Dondrea Tillman and Jonah Elliss that they were even in the game on a crucial late fourth-quarter drive. It was telling, too, that they rewarded the faith, continuing seasons that have made it incredibly easy for Joseph to buy rest for starters Nik Bonitto and Jonathon Cooper.
With Green Bay down eight and driving into Denver territory, Tillman finished off a 2nd-and-7 collapsed pocket with a massive sack on Packers quarterback Jordan Love. A play later, Elliss dropped into coverage on a 3rd-and-15 and wrapped up Packers receiver John FitzPatrick in the open field well short of the first-down marker. It was an impressive sequence and further evidence of enviable Broncos defensive depth heading into the playoffs.
Bo Nix, leaguewide: The efficiency over 14 games is still hit-or-miss, as Nix now ranks 19th of 32 qualified NFL QBs in passer rating (89.7) and tied for 26th in yards per attempt (6.5). But Nix’s overall body of work is starting to take solid shape after a heater against the Packers: he’s ninth in the league in passing yards, tied for sixth in passing touchdowns, and 11th in expected points added, according to Next Gen Stats.
It’s a bit bonkers to say, given the complete mixed bag of Nix’s season. But the Broncos’ record (12-2) and his performance across the last four weeks — a 70% completion rate and a 98.7 quarterback rating — could put Nix in some down-ballot MVP discussion.
Stock down
Run game: Both Payton and Nix had a lot of praise postgame for Denver’s offensive front after Sunday’s win, pointing out that the Broncos didn’t surrender a single sack against a mighty Packers pass-rush. That defensive front, too, made it plenty hard for the Broncos to run the ball. This is partly situational. But ever since J.K. Dobbins went down, the Broncos have faced a slightly alarming trend: They’ve averaged fewer than four yards a carry as a team in three of their last four games, including a 2.9 mark against the Packers on Sunday.
RJ Harvey continues to develop in all phases and largely took what was given in a 19-carry, 65-yard, one-touchdown performance Sunday. But Jaleel McLaughlin hasn’t been able to capably spell Harvey as an RB2, and that’s an awfully heavy load to put on a rookie. Payton might need to get creative here.
Tyler Badie: Speaking of the ground game. Badie’s been excellent in pass-protection this season, and has deservedly earned Payton’s trust with that lone skill. But he continues to struggle in other facets, lacking the heft to be a consistent between-the-tackles runner and the breakaway speed to be a consistent threat in the screen game. Badie’s had his moments this year, but somehow drew a second-quarter false start while simply lining up in the backfield.
With Harvey’s rapid development in pass protection across the last few weeks, it might be time for Payton to glance at elevating recent practice-squad signee Sincere McCormick on gamedays to take some between-the-tackles pressure off of Harvey.
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It’s a dangerous gamble in the NFL to thrust one’s own back against the wall consistently and hand-pick national narratives to galvanize internal faith. That, however, is exactly what these Broncos are doing. And it’s working.
Vance Joseph’s intermediate area of the field: The Broncos still did more than enough Sunday to put the Packers away defensively. Pat Surtain and Riley Moss made huge plays on the back-end. Allen, John Franklin-Myers and a cavalcade of edge rushers created major pressure on Love in the second half. But the first half of Denver-Green Bay cannot go ignored, as the Packers moved the ball at will on Joseph’s defense.
The main issue: matchup issues in the intermediate passing game. Teams have started to outright pick on safety Talanoa Hufanga in coverage, or look for Alex Singleton or Dre Greenlaw if either is matched up on a faster skill player. That’ll happen from time to time, but this is a glaring warning light for the Broncos.
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