Russell Wilson is likely running out of chances to keep playing in the NFL. The former Seattle Seahawks icon is now on his fourth team in five years. He found a new home this offseason with the New York Giants, one of the few (or maybe the only…) teams that would still have him.
Why should 12s care? After all, without reading this article, someone on social media will see the headline and say something along the silly lines of, “Why is a Seattle site still writing about Wilson? Move on.”
The truth is that even when a player leaves a team, especially one as important as Russell Wilson was to the Seahawks, that player should always matter to fans of his former team. Long after Wilson retires, his time with Seattle cannot be easily dismissed. He is the best quarterback in franchise history.
Good luck and goodnight for former Seattle Seahawks great Russell Wilson?
Now, whether 12s want him to do well is a different question. He left the team in the 2022 offseason after trying to get head coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider fired. The move backfired on the quarterback, and he was dealt to the Denver Broncos.
Some fans will harbor ill will against Wilson for being so arrogant as to attempt a power grab with Seattle. Since then, he has gotten paid a lot of money, and been put in his proper place by having to move from team to team.
He is expected to be the starter with the Giants, a relatively bad team in the tough NFC East. Maybe New York and Russell Wilson would fare better if they played in the AFC South or NFC South, but that isn’t the case. This means Wilson is likely set up for failure in his first season with the Giants.
Plus, in his new team’s first preseason game of 2025, the quarterback probably saw his future literally pass in front of his eyes. Wilson started against the Buffalo Bills, led his team on a field goal drive (that only gained 30 yards and the field goal was made from 53 yards), and then the veteran gave way to rookie first-round pick Jaxson Dart.
Dart looked better than Wilson. The Mississippi product went 12 of 19 for 154 yards and a touchdown. He also ran the ball three times for 24 yards.
Is this only the preseason? Sure. But will the Giants likely have a quarterback controversy if New York stumbles early in the season? Again, sure.
It didn’t help Wilson that the quarterbacks that played after Dart, veterans Jameis Winston and Tommy DeVito, also looked solid. If a Russell Wilson-led Giants team has a losing record after the first month of the season, New York football fans are going to be asking for a QB change. If that happens, Wilson might never play in the NFL again.
Does that affect many Seattle Seahawks fans directly? No, but emotionally it will. Wilson was too successful and then too controversial to ever forget for most 12s.
