Russell Wilson, that Seattle Seahawks icon who left a divisive legacy after asking for general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll to be fired before the quarterback was traded, is going to CBS to be an analyst on NFL game days. Yet, he isn't exactly retiring.
At least, not according to NFL insider Ian Rapoport. This means that should a team come calling after its quarterback gets hurt, Wilson could leave the studio and put on a uniform. Is that likely, based on Wilson's play the last few years? Not really.
But let's imagine an alternative universe four or five years down the road. The quarterback would be 42 or 43 years old, around the same age that Aaron Rodgers is now, and a year or two younger than Philip Rivers was when he rejoined the Indianapolis Colts for a few games last season.
An alternative universe would be the only way Russell Wilson returns to the Seattle Seahawks
Could Russell Wilson re-establish a positive rapport with Seattle Seahawks fans if the team is in a dire situation, needing someone (anyone) to fill in as QB1 for some spot starts? The thought seems ridiculous, but Colts fans likely thought that Rivers coming back after being retired for five years would be ludicrous, too.
The thought, of course, isn't necessarily a fun one. After all, no one wants Seattle to be in a position of being so needy that it is thinking of asking the then long-retired Wilson to try and save the team. But if that happened, and he did save the team that season, how great a story would that be?
He was beloved for many years by Seahawks fans. He helped lead the team to back-to-back Super Bowl appearances, and the team won its first title ever in one of them. The second one ended with a Wilson interception, but that was more the fault of the play-caller, Darrell Bevell, than the quarterback.
Russell Wilson might have been trending toward being far too arrogant with every passing season in Seattle, and his end was brutal, but he was still the most successful quarterback in franchise history, and he holds almost all of the positive passing records with the team.
In an alternative universe, the new CBS football analyst comes back to the Seattle Seahawks at the end of a season and helps the team pull out a win or two. Or, he pulls a Philip Rivers with the Colts last season, is a shell of his former self, and the team keeps losing. Let's hope none of that occurs.
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