Outside Linebacker · Denver Broncos

Nik Bonitto

No. 15 · 5th season

Ninth in the league, and Bonitto thinks he's just getting started

There's a certain kind of player who, after one of the best seasons of their career, looks at the tape and finds more to fix. Nik Bonitto is that player.

Bonitto spent 2024 making life miserable for opposing quarterbacks, finishing with 13.5 sacks for the Denver Broncos. That was enough to land him ninth in Defensive Player of the Year voting — a list most players never appear on, at any point in their careers.

His takeaway from all of it? He's not finished becoming the player he wants to be.

For a team that is still building toward something real, that posture matters. A pass rusher in his prime who believes he has ceiling left is exactly the kind of thing a franchise holds onto. The question is whether Bonitto can make that belief look obvious in year to come.

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