Russell Wilson

Russell Wilson was dealt to the Denver Broncos in one of the biggest trades in NFL history and, while the long-term winners and losers aren't yet clear, ...

Last year, the Broncos were 7-10 and play in a tough division. This trade, in a way, is a huge sign of respect to the Rams. The Broncos are essentially saying forget about draft picks, we need a star QB starter kit and we’re in business. It is tough to do that when Wilson is begging to throw the ball and is the highest-paid player on the team. The Seahawks are saying the Rams just won and are light years ahead, we need to tear it all down. If the Broncos aren’t good enough to compete for a championship now, that window might close quickly. You don’t expect teams being sold to spend money, you expect them to clean up the books and remove any liabilities. In that same span, Wilson has had the sixth best QBR. When you look at the list of most passing TDs in their first 10 seasons, Wilson (292) is only behind Manning (306) and just ahead of Dan Marino (290). That’s A-list, Hall-of-Fame status. The Broncos head coach and former Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator is in Denver to run a high-powered, West Coast offence. The Broncos' offence has ranked 21st or worse in scoring each year since Manning hung up the cleats and the team has had the fourth-worst quarterback rating in that time. Here's what the duelling news made by Rodgers and Wilson meant, according to fans. The Wilson trade culminates the busiest 24-hour stretch thus far in the NFL off-season. Seattle acquired mainly draft capital and young assets in return for the nine-time Pro Bowl quarterback.

How exactly did we go from April 17, 2019, when Russell Wilson proclaimed, "I want to be a Seahawk for life" to March 8, 2022, when he was traded away?

It’s thought one reason Seattle didn’t sign Colin Kaepernick in 2017 was out of concerns whether Kaepernick might prove a threat to Wilson’s standing in the locker room, with Wilson at the time coming off his worst season. “I think what I agree with is, find a way to win the game, whatever that is,” Wilson said. “The guys I’ve always admired in sports, the guys that played at (their) locations for 15-20 years, guys like Derek Jeter, I want to be like that,” Wilson continued. I think that’s the key to our football team, always believing that you can.” The move to Wisconsin, though, worked out perfectly for Wilson. Regarded as a middling NFL prospect at best at the time, Wilson set a college football record in passing efficiency in his one year with the Badgers in leading them to the Rose Bowl and ending up a third-round choice of the Seahawks the following spring. I know how to win a lot of those games. As the years progressed, some around the team grew tired of the constant rumors swirling around Wilson’s future and rumblings of his discontent with the team, and that every game seemed to increasingly be viewed as a referendum on how the team was using him. And you’re not going to win every single one of them. But as a six-part podcast by 99.9 The Fan in Raleigh, North Carolina, last year detailed, the issue was far more nuanced and the parting a result of a relationship between Wilson and O’Brien that frayed over several years due not only to Wilson’s desire to play baseball but also long baseball-related absences from the team and subsequent communication issues between the two, and O’Brien questioning Wilson’s commitment to the football team. The Seahawks were blown out the following week at Minnesota, Wilson was hurt two weeks later against the Rams, and a season that Seattle hoped would end in the Super Bowl — and mend any lingering wounds with Wilson — instead devolved into the worst of the Wilson era. — Wilson’s agent, Mark Rodgers, giving the team an April 15 deadline on April 2, 2019, to get a new contract completed, a move that caught some as needlessly contentious given that the Seahawks had every desire to get a contract with Wilson done that year anyway. On April 17, 2019, after signing a new four-year contract that made him the highest-paid player in the history of the NFL, Russell Wilson stood with his family at a celebratory news conference at the VMAC in Renton wearing a Sonics jacket and proclaiming “I want to be a Seahawk for life.”

Les Broncos de Denver auraient obtenu le quart-arrière Russell Wilson dans une mégatransaction avec les Seahawks de Seattle qui ne pourra être officialisée ...

Au point de vue personnel, Wilson a raté les trois premières parties de sa carrière en 2021 en raison d’une blessure. En 2021, la formation du Colorado a par ailleurs montré une fiche de 7-10, soit la même que les Seahawks. Wilson aurait signifié lui-même son intention de tâter le terrain afin d’obtenir une nouvelle opportunité de viser le Super Bowl au terme de la plus récente campagne, selon le site officiel de la NFL. Il rejoindra toutefois, s’il consent à cette transaction, un club qui n’a pas participé aux éliminatoires lors des six dernières saisons.

Selon Adam Schefter d'ESPN, les Broncos ont réalisé une transaction avec les Seahawks de Seattle pour obtenir les services du quart-arrière Russell Wilson. Les ...

Les Broncos frappent un grand coup avec Russell WilsonNFL mardi, 8 mars 2022. 13:48 mardi, 8 mars 2022. Le directeur général des Broncos, George Paton, affirme que la décision d’Aaron Rodgers de demeurer avec les Packers lundi n’a pas eu d’impact sur leur décision d’embaucher Wilson. Les discussions avec Seattle auraient débuté il y a au moins deux semaines, et dans les derniers jours, il devenait clair que Wilson était le plan A à Denver.

Selon des médias américains, les Broncos auraient concocté une transaction monstre pour faire son acquisition.

Le NFL Network affirme de son côté que Wilson et un choix de quatrième tour prennent la voie des Rocheuses en retour de deux choix de première ronde, deux choix de deuxième tour et un choix de cinquième ronde, en plus du quart Drew Lock, de l'ailier défensif Shelby Harris et de l'ailier rapproché Noah Fant. Selon des médias américains, les Broncos de Denver auraient concocté une transaction monstre pour mettre la main sur le quart-arrière Russell Wilson, des Seahawks de Seattle. Russell Wilson prendrait la direction de Denver

Trade for haul of draft picks and players is pending a physical and can't be announced until March 16.

The decision to go with Wilson was one of the smartest ever made by Carroll. He has two years remaining on his current contract and a salary cap hit of $37 million for the 2022 season. Overall, he’s 9-7 in the playoffs. The trade, though, was the culmination of more than a year’s worth of buildup. Not long afterward, Paton landed a Super Bowl-winning quarterback anyway, and one who’s five years younger than the 38-year-old Packers star. About an hour later, the Seahawks tweeted another clip from that movie in which Hanks’ scraggly, skinny character loses the volleyball at sea and hollers, ” Wilson, where are you?