Predicting what Russell Wilson’s 2020 season will look like
By Lee Vowell
What will Russell Wilson’s 2020 season look like for the Seahawks?
Russell Wilson. You know him and you love him, 12s. Or at least you should. Thinking the Seahawks would have been better off without Wilson over most of the last decade is dumb. Russell Wilson is a great quarterback and has many times over the last several seasons taken a Seahawks team that wasn’t very good and made them better than the sum of their parts.
The greatest part of the Seahawks is Russell Wilson. Without Wilson, Seattle is an – at best – 6 win team. Probably more like a 4 win team. But let us hope we don’t find out where the truth lies because it could be worse than 4 wins.
Russell Wilson in 2019
Wilson in 2019 was amazing through the first 9 weeks of the season. I swear I am not making up the fact that through 9 weeks, Wilson had thrown just 1 interception. In the meanwhile, he had thrown for 22 touchdowns. Sounds like a video game statistic, doesn’t it? But that is how really good Wilson is. Through 9 games of 2019, Seattle was 7-2.
After week 9, Wilson came back down to still-more-than-human levels. In the last 7 games of the season, Wilson, probably extremely exhausted, threw four more picks against 9 touchdowns. Seattle went 4-3 the rest of the season.
The question about 2020 is, how long will Russell Wilson have to be great for the team to win and how much will he simply have to be really good for Seahawks victories.
What will Russell Wilson do in 2020?
So here’s the good part, Wilson will have more weapons in 2020. The Seahawks added tight end Greg Olsen and signed Carlos Hyde. Seattle has more depth at receiver and running back and the offensive line should be the same, slightly below average.
Wilson will also get the gift of second-year DK Metcalf being even better while Tyler Lockett is still great.
Russell Wilson’s career=best in touchdown passes is 35. He will beat that in 2020. His career-high in yards is 4,219. He will beat that too. Wilson will have his best statistical year in 2020 because of the weapons Seattle has given him for this coming season. Plus, he might still gain Antonio Brown or Josh Gordon.
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Prediction for Russell Wilson’s 2020 season
Completion percentage: 65.7
Touchdowns: 38
Yards: 4,498
Interceptions: 8
QBR: 108.3