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Since the Seattle Seahawks traded quarterback Russell Wilson<\/a> to the Denver Broncos in March 2022, the veteran quarterback has seen his career head down a slow, downward spiral. It culminated with the New York Giants making Wilson a healthy scratch for the first time in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With starter Jaxson Dart returning from injury and backup Jameis Winston playing well in Dart’s stead, the team found no use for the 37-year-old quarterback.<\/p>\n
Wilson’s decline arguably started in his last season with the Seahawks. After compiling a 98-45-1 career record in his first nine seasons, including a Super Bowl victory and two NFC championships, Wilson slogged to a 6-8 record as a starter in 2021. That’s when the team shipped him to Denver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Broncos head coach Sean Payton couldn’t wait to dump Wilson and the team released him after two seasons (during which he had an 11-19 record as a starter). Next, Wilson headed to Pittsburgh. After recovering from a preseason calf injury, Wilson took over for Justin Fields and the Steelers raced to a 10-3 start in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Wilson’s age and flaws as a quarterback showed up late in the season. Pittsburgh lost five consecutive games to end the season, including a 28-14 loss in the Wild Card round to the Baltimore Ravens (a game the Steelers trailed 21-0 in the first half).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nFrom Denver to New York through Pittsburgh, Russell Wilson\u2019s post-Seattle decline ends with a healthy scratch as the Giants lean on Jaxson Dart and Jameis Winston.<\/p>\n
(David Butler II-Imagn Images)<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Giants took a shot on Wilson and named him the starter for Week 1 over Dart and Winston. But the Giants started 0-3, with two putrid offensive performances<\/a>, and the team replaced him with the rookie Dart<\/a>. When Dart went down with an injury, the Giants elected to start journeyman Winston rather than hand the reins back to Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Dart and Winston both healthy, Wilson isn’t even on the game day roster. It’s been a massive fall from grace for the 10-time Pro Bowler, who was once considered a lock for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. At this point, his place in Canton likely doesn’t exist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, a man needs to know when it’s time to call it a career. For Russell Wilson, that time is now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Giants made him a healthy scratch with Jaxson Dart and Jameis Winston available, Russell Wilson\u2019s post-Seattle…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":419196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-419195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115649301601155974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}