Bo Nix wanted to make one thing clear Wednesday.

“(There’s) nothing that scares me going forward like I’m injury prone or anything,’’ he said.

The Broncos quarterback suffered a broken right ankle in a Jan. 17 divisional playoff game against Buffalo and sat out Sunday’s 10-7 loss to New England in the AFC Championship Game. But Nix said in a conference call Wednesday that, while he considered suffering the injury “devastating, it was a “clean break” and that he will be back training in “four-to-six weeks.” He expects to be ready for spring drills, which start in late April.

Nix pushed back on Broncos coach Sean Payton having said Tuesday he had heard that Dr. Norman Waldrop II, who performed Nix’s surgery Jan. 20 in Birmingham, Alabama, said the injury “was going to happen sooner than later,’’ and that Nix was found to have “a condition that was predisposed.”

“Nothing predisposed,’’ Nix said. “Nothing that was there originally. That might have gotten confused.”

When Payton announced to reporters after the 33-30 overtime win over the Bills that Nix had suffered a season-ending broken ankle, he made note of the quarterback having suffered previous ankle injuries in high school and in college before joining the Broncos in 2024. Nix had surgery to repair a fractured right ankle suffered for Auburn on Nov. 13, 2021 against Mississippi State. He returned to full health in playing the next two seasons at Oregon.

Earlier Wednesday, Broncos owner Greg Penner was asked if he had any worries about Nix’s ankle injury moving forward.

“Zero concern,’’ Penner said. “His surgery was a straightforward surgery that went very well. Absolutely no issues there or concerns moving forward.”

Nix was hurt in overtime against the Bills on a designed running play. He stayed in for two more plays before Wil Lutz kicked a game-winning 23-yard field goal.

“It was just a simple step with my foot up in the air,’’ he said. “My body weight came down on it and then sort of got twisted out and got out of (the situation) pretty quick. …  It could have been a worse landing.”

Nix celebrated the win with his teammates in the locker room before he got the news that X-rays had showed a fracture.

“It was a bummer,’’ said Nix, who had started 36 straight regular-season and playoff games after being the No. 12 pick in the 2024 draft. “It was a little bit unknown at the end of the game, so it was just going about business as usual (until learning about the injury). … It’s crushing. It’s defeating. You go that long and you play that many games … and the season comes to an end abruptly like that, it stinks.”

Nix, who helped lead the Broncos to a 14-3 record in the regular season and the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs, detailed the surgery and his recovery process.

“Very quick procedure,’’ he said. “Very easy operation. Just a simple bone break. Got that fixed up. Great surgeon. … It’s a typical bone break. Four-to-six weeks, be back training, ready to roll. … It’ll be absolutely no issue this offseason. I’ll be able to actually start training back the same time I was going to start training, so don’t miss any time there. … Easy recovery.”

Nix, known for both his passing and running ability, said the injury will “absolutely not” affect his abilities as a dual-threat quarterback.

Nix said it was “terrible” having to watch Denver’s loss Sunday while not being able to help the team. He was replaced in the lineup by Jarrett Stidham, who completed 17 of 31 passes for 133 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

“I was very helpless,’’ said Nix, who watched the game in a suite. “There wasn’t much I could do about it. … It’s tough to see, when you go down, the show just keeps right on going. … You just missed being out there. You just take for granted like the practices and being around the guys. … (The injury) reminds you not to take things for granted. It can change real quickly and literally in the snap of a play it can change.”

Nix offered thanks for all the support he has received from the Broncos since his injury. He talked about how teammates who had left Empower Field after the win over the Bills came back to see him after they heard the news about his injury.

“Those guys made it much better, just seeing them, seeing their care, seeing their worry,’’ Nix said. “It just makes a person feel like they’re meaningful to the team.”

Nix sure is meaningful to the Broncos. During the regular season, he threw for 3,931 yards and 25 touchdowns and was second in the NFL with five fourth-quarter comebacks.

“I thought, he had, as a second-year quarterback, a fantastic season,’’ Penner said.

While the Broncos fell short of their goal of making it to Super Bowl LX, Nix expects there will be plenty of winning in their future.

“There’s going to be more years of this, more wins around here, and there’s going to be more opportunities to go and play for championships,’’ he said. “And I think that’s the most exciting part.”