The Broncos seem to be saying ixnay and amscray to the quarterback most football doyens believe the team should draft.

Michael Hiers has visited more NFL control centers than Michael Penix Jr., Michael Pratt, Michael Fassbender and, yes, even Bo Nix.

Who hires Hiers? Who he?

Hiers was the two-year starter at Samford, not Stanford, and threw for 7,500 yards (72 percent competition rate) with 54 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. He has been termed a shorter, smaller (6-foot-1, 215 pounds) poor man’s Josh Allen. He played Northwestern Mississippi Community College before transferring to Samford. He participated in something called the Tropical Bowl, where the Broncos scouted and interviewed him before Michael became an item of interest. Hiers replied in a podcast that comparisons to Allen, who was passed over by the Broncos at No. 5 in the 2018 draft, “are pretty funny.’’ Ha.

Yet, the Broncos, the Jaguars, the Raiders, the Chargers and the Jets have welcomed him for Top 30 draft-eligible player meetings.

Only Hiers and Penix Jr. have been to Denver lately. No Caleb, no Drake, no Jayden, no J.J. and no Bo.

Nix has been nixed so far. In fact, the only Bo sighting was in Vegas on Friday when he interviewed with the Raiders, who own the No. 13 selection in the first round, just behind the Broncos.

Is this a pick ploy play by Payton, Paton and Penner to confuse the rest of the NFL? Or have the Broncos studied, scouted and scrutinized Nix enough to determine they aren’t fascinated?

The countdown of days to the draft is at 18.

The Broncos will be selecting someone.

Not Hiers. They could bring him in as an undrafted free agent and fifth camp quarterback – if they still (can) sign a veteran. Carson Wentz just became the 21st experienced quarterback to join a team, leaving the Broncos with the likes of Ryan Tannehill and Trevor Siemian – and Brian Hoyer, Blaine Gabbert and Matt Barkley, three old B-teamers nobody wants.

What is the story, though, on Bronco Bo, who keeps reiterating aloud that he would love to play for Payton. Is Bo begging the Broncos to take him at the 12 spot? He was highly complimentary of the Broncos coach after their only meeting at the NFL Combine. Sean didn’t watch him at the Senior Bowl or attend his, or any other quarterback’s, Pro Day.

It was an odd indication that the Broncos sent to Oregon only two representatives – Dave Bratten, who is the scouting coordinator and got his start with the Broncos as an intern in the media relations department when Mike Shanahan was the coach, and Sae Woon Jo, a scout in the Western area of the country and a former college and Arena football defensive coach. Absent were GM George Paton, offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, new senior offensive assistant Pete Carmichael, quarterbacks coach Davis Webb (who was a QB in the league two years ago), passing game John Morton and offensive quality control assistant Logan Kilgore, who was coaching Arch Manning in high school in 2022.

Sure, some of those same people scouted him with the Ducks, at the Senior Bowl practices and in the game and during drills in Indianapolis. But none of the offensive staff members showed for Pro Day.

Penix Jr. has performed a personal workout for the Broncos previously and was in Denver. According to Payton, J.J. McCarthy agreed to a solo session with the Broncos.

And Hiers has been to Dove Valley.

Meanwhile, Hall of Famer Dan Fouts – who played for Oregon, lives in the state, sees all Ducks games and certainly is prejudiced in Nix evaluations – became another Pro-Bo enthusiast to express, in a conversation with Gazette Broncos beat writer Chris Tomasson, that Nix would be ideal for the Broncos. “He’s a player, a real competitor. He’s really smart. He’s got a great future.’’ Several other footballnicks have assessed that Nix could be for Payton the kind of quarterback Drew Brees was with the coach in New Orleans.

Nix is the consensus choice for the Broncos throughout the league, except perhaps in the Broncos’ offices.

And if Bo is summoned soon to Broncos Central he should be flown in by helicopter as a quarterback named Peyton was. Nix Way.