The Denver Broncos will kick off their 2026 regular season this Monday night against the Kansas City Chiefs, starting a campaign that many feel could end in Los Angeles in Super Bowl LXI.
Count Kay Adams among them. Adams, a former NFL Network host, recently predicted on FanDuel TV’s Up & Adams show that the Broncos will play in this year's Super Bowl. She even predicted the opponent... the Chicago Bears
."Here's my Super Bowl matchup... Broncos, Bears," Adams said while making her 2026 season predictions. "Denver would have been in the Super Bowl last year. It's just the plain, pragmatic math of it. If Bo (Nix) doesn't get hurt, they go. They're the same team; there's no storyline here. More continuity than any team from last year. The most
complete roster already in the NFL, and then they bring in — what is somehow still being slept on — in Jaylen Waddle, waddling his way into the wide receiver one role.
"I cannot understand for the life of me why this team is getting the eighth-longest odds in the conference right now. It's a disbelief in Bo, that's all that that is, and I think we see Bo have his best season yet. I think the franchise adds another AFC championship; that would be nine... nine banners in their workout facility, nine banners to the trophy case. So, that's just going to happen."
Adams has consistently been a supporter of what the Broncos are building since Sean Payton became the team's head coach.
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Broncos vs. Bears in Super Bowl LXI?
This isn't a bad prediction. In fact, it had a decent shot of happening last season.
It would feature two quarterbacks, Nix and Caleb Williams, who were each first-round picks in 2024. It would also pit offensive-minded head coaches Payton and Ben Johnson against one another in what would be an exciting clash.
The Bears haven't been to the Super Bowl since the 2006 season, in a loss to Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts. The Broncos are more than a decade separated from winning Super Bowl 50, so it would be a matchup of two proud franchises with two of the most devoted fanbases in the league against each other.
Sounds like a great potential matchup.
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