Russell Wilson
American football player · United States · On the map · Athletes · Born 1988 · age 37
The quarterback who won Seattle its first Super Bowl, then threw the pick that cost them a second one a year later. Nine Pro Bowls with the Seahawks, a $245 million deal in Denver that cratered, and a career that ended with a one-year stopover in New York before he walked into a broadcast booth.
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Wilson and the Badgers threaten the Purdue Boilermakers end zone in 2011.
Wilson with the Seattle Seahawks as a rookie, 2012
Wilson at the 2013 Jessie Vetter Classic on July 1, 2013
Wilson before a game against the St. Louis Rams in 2014
Wilson after a postseason game in 2014
Wilson against the Baltimore Ravens in 2015
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Russell Wilson played college football and baseball at NC State before transferring to Wisconsin in 2011, where he set the single-season FBS record for passer rating and led the Badgers to the Rose Bowl. Seattle took him in the third round of the 2012 draft. He tied the rookie touchdown record, then steered the Seahawks to back-to-back Super Bowls - winning XLVIII, losing XLIX on Malcolm Butler's goal-line interception. In 2019 he signed a four-year, $140 million extension, the richest in the league at the time. The Seahawks traded him to Denver in 2022; he signed for $245 million and promptly led the league's worst scoring offense. Benched late in 2023, he was cut and spent 2024 in Pittsburgh, earning his tenth Pro Bowl, then one season with the Giants. He retired in 2026 to join CBS Sports, the only quarterback ever with 40,000 passing yards and 5,000 rushing yards.
