Russell Wilson
 Wilson in the game against the Washington Redskins 2014 |
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| Seattle Seahawks - No. 3 | |
| Quarterback | |
| Date of birth: November 29, 1988 | |
| Place of birth: Cincinnati , Ohio | |
| Height: 1.80 m | Weight: 93 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2012 for the Seattle Seahawks | |
| Career | |
| College : Wisconsin | |
| NFL Draft : 2012 / Round: 3 / Pick: 75 | |
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| Current status: active | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Selected NFL stats as of week 17 of the 2019 season |
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| Thrown Touchdowns - Interceptions | 227-68 |
| Thrown yards | 29,734 |
| Pass attempts - Passes arrived | 3,777-2,436 |
| Passes arrived in% | 64.5 |
| Quarterback rating | 101.2 |
| yards run - touchdowns | 3,993-19 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Russell Carrington Wilson (* 29. November 1988 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American American football poker players at the position of quarterback . He played college football for North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin . In the 2012 NFL Draft , he was selected in the third round by the Seattle Seahawks , for which he has since been active in the National Football League (NFL). He won Super Bowl XLVIII with them and has been elected to the Pro Bowl six times so far .
Career
High school
Russell Wilson attended the Collegiate School in Richmond , Virginia . In his last two years in high school , he scored 6,296 yards thrown and 74 touchdown passes . He also ran for 634 yards of space and scored 15 touchdowns with his running game.
college
Wilson attended North Carolina State University from 2008 to 2010 , where he played college football for NCAA Team Wolfpack . In 2011 he moved to the University of Wisconsin – Madison and played there for the Wisconsin Badgers , with whom he also won the Big Ten Conference . Russell Wilson was selected as the 75th player in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks in the 3rd round.
NFL
After a good preseason from Wilson, he was surprisingly named starting quarterback and played his first NFL game on September 9, 2012 with the Arizona Cardinals . In his first season, Wilson completed all 16 season games. In addition, his team was able to qualify for the play-offs , but was eliminated in the Divisional Round against the Atlanta Falcons . In the vote for the NFL Rookie of the Year, his strong performance brought him to third behind quarterbacks Robert Griffin III of the Washington Redskins and Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts . In his second season, Russell Wilson was able to expand his achievements and developed to the leader of the team. The Seattle Seahawks were able to reach the play-offs again this year with a record of 13 wins and only three defeats in the regular season . In the play-offs of the 2013 season , Wilson was able to celebrate the Super Bowl XLVIII with a 23:17 win in the NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers . There the Seattle Seahawks won 43: 8 against the Denver Broncos and thus the Super Bowl for the first time. Russell Wilson contributed 2 touchdown passes himself.
In the 2014 season, Wilson secured with the Seahawks, with a record of 12 wins and four losses and the associated first place in the seeding list, back home play in the play-offs. After the Carolina Panthers and Green Bay Packers were beaten at CenturyLink Field , they moved back to the Super Bowl . In the final seconds of the game against the New England Patriots , Malcolm Butler intercepted a pass from Wilson to Ricardo Lockette, who was running into the opposing end zone , and thus prevented the successful title defense.
After throwing ten touchdowns and seven interceptions in the first nine games of the 2015 season, he got 19 touchdowns with no turnover in the next five games . This makes him the only quarterback in NFL history to throw at least three touchdowns in five games in a row. On the twelfth day of play, Wilson set a new personal best in the 39-30 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers on his 27th birthday when he threw five touchdown passes and 345 yards. With seven wins in the last eight games, he managed to get into the play-offs with the Seahawks in his fourth NFL season. At the end of the regular season, Wilson Seahawks set franchise records for yards thrown (4,024), touchdowns thrown (34) and best quarterback rating in a season (110.1). This made him the first Seahawks quarterback to break the 4,000 yard mark and he had the best quarterback rating in the league. This earned him his third Pro Bowl calling.
The 2017 season was a successful one for Wilson, as he led the NFL with 34 touchdown passes and was only the fifth quarterback since 1970 to lead his team in yards run. Due to weaknesses in other positions, the Seahawks missed the play-offs for the first time since Wilson's arrival.
Wilson maintained his level of play in the 2018 and 2019 seasons and threw a total of 66 touchdowns with only 12 interceptions in both years. In 2019 he was also considered a candidate for the MVP Award, but could not win it.
Passing statistics
| year | team | Comp-Att | Comp% | Yards | TD | INT | QB Rtg |
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| 2012 | SEA | 252-393 | 64.1 | 3.118 | 26th | 10 | 100.0 |
| 2013 | SEA | 257-407 | 63.1 | 3,357 | 26th | 9 | 101.2 |
| 2014 | SEA | 285-452 | 63.1 | 3,475 | 20th | 7th | 95.0 |
| 2015 | SEA | 329-483 | 68.1 | 4,024 | 34 | 8th | 110.1 |
| 2016 | SEA | 353-546 | 64.7 | 4,219 | 21st | 11 | 92.6 |
| 2017 | SEA | 339-553 | 61.3 | 3,983 | 34 | 11 | 95.4 |
| 2018 | SEA | 280-427 | 65.6 | 3,448 | 35 | 7th | 110.9 |
| 2019 | SEA | 341-516 | 66.1 | 4.110 | 31 | 5 | 106.3 |
| total | 2436-3777 | 64.5 | 29,734 | 227 | 68 | 101.2 | |
Rushing statistics
| year | team | Att | Yards | Avg | Lng | TD |
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| 2012 | SEA | 94 | 489 | 5.2 | 25T | 4th |
| 2013 | SEA | 96 | 539 | 5.6 | 27 | 1 |
| 2014 | SEA | 118 | 849 | 7.2 | 55 | 6th |
| 2015 | SEA | 103 | 553 | 5.4 | 24 | 1 |
| 2016 | SEA | 72 | 259 | 3.6 | 18th | 1 |
| 2017 | SEA | 95 | 586 | 6.2 | 31 | 3 |
| 2018 | SEA | 67 | 376 | 5.6 | 40 | 0 |
| 2019 | SEA | 75 | 342 | 4.7 | 21st | 3 |
| total | 720 | 3993 | 5.5 | 55 | 19th | |
NFL records
- Most rookie pass yards in a play-off game: 385 yards
- Most regular season wins by a quarterback in his first 2 seasons: 24 wins
- Most overall wins in the first two years (28, including play-offs)
- Most home wins in rookie season: 8 (2012)
- Most games in a row with at least three touchdown passes and no interception: 5 (2014)
Play style
Russell Wilson is a dual-threat quarterback who also increasingly runs ( scramblet ). By running out of the pocket ( offensive line ) he creates more time and an overview. Wilson has run 3,993 yards and 19 touchdowns in his NFL career . ( As of May 2020 ) With only 1.9% intercepted throws, he is statistically the fourth best quarterback in NFL history in this category. He also has a receiving touchdown.
Private
On January 14, 2012, Wilson married his longtime girlfriend. On April 23, 2014, Wilson publicly announced that he had filed for divorce. Since April 2015 he has been in a relationship with the singer Ciara . They got engaged in March 2016 and then married on July 6th.
Others
Russell Wilson is also a very talented baseball player . So he was drafted in 2010 by the Colorado Rockies for their Class A team ( minor league baseball ), but decided on American football . In addition, the Texas Rangers Wilson drafted for PR reasons in the so-called Rule 5 Draft. He declined with thanks, but still appeared in jumping training for a "meet and greet". Wilson made a cameo in the 2015 film Entourage .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1723596-how-russell-wilson-improbably-became-a-top-nfl-talent
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/russell-wilson-1.html
- ↑ http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6708649
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZD82D0nVoI
- ↑ http://espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp12/story/_/id/8305648/seattle-seahawks-tab-rookie-russell-wilson-week-1-starter
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 9, 2019
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 9, 2019
- ^ Huffington Post. "Rookie of the year 2012." ( Memento of May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved March 9, 2019
- ↑ http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/108216/russell-wilson-is-seahawks-clear-leader
- ↑ http://www.spox.com/de/sport/ussport/nfl/1312/News/seattle-seahawks-new-orleans-saints-erstes-aufeinandertreffen-seit-2011-beast-quake-marshawn-lynch.html
- ↑ http://www.nfl.com/standings
- ↑ Super Bowl: Seattle Seahawks meet Denver Broncos ( January 23, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ), January 20, 2014 star
- ↑ http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2014020200/2013/POST22/seahawks@broncos#menu=highlights&tab=recap
- ↑ wilson throws a career high five touchdowns (English) cbssports.com, accessed November 30, 2015
- ↑ wilson passes kriegs franchise record for td passes (English) seattletimes.com, accessed on January 4, 2016
- ↑ By The Numbers: Seahawks vs. Cardinals. (No longer available online.) Seattle Seahawks, archived from the original on January 3, 2018 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Legion of Boom injuries, inconsistent offense helped sink Seahawks' season. ESPN, accessed January 1, 2018 .
- ↑ a b career statistics on nfl.com . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
- ↑ http://www.nfl.com/player/russellwilson/2532975/profile
- ^ NFL Career Pass Interception% Leaders. In: pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
- ↑ http://slimcelebrity.com/celebrity-athletes/ashton-meem-is-seahawksqb-russell-wilsons-wife/
- ↑ Russell Wilson: Superbowl winner wants to get divorced. Retrieved May 18, 2014 from sport1.de
- ^ John Breech: LOOK: Russell Wilson spent his bye week on a beach in Mexico with Ciara. November 9, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Congratulations, Russell Wilson and Ciara on your engagement! (No longer available online.) Seattle Seahawks, March 11, 2016, archived from the original on March 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 (English).
- ↑ http://www.sportal.de/nfl-quarterback-russell-wilson-mit-seahawks-im-super-bowl-1-2014012734044100000
- ↑ http://espn.go.com/nfl/draft2012/story/_/id/7456239/wisconsin-badgers-russell-wilson-tells-colorado-rockies-pursue-nfl
- ↑ http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/russell-wilson-baseball-draft-seahawks-rangers/
- ^ John Boyle: Russell Wilson makes his big screen debut Wednesday with a cameo in the Entourage. (No longer available online.) June 3, 2015, archived from the original on January 5, 2016 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wilson, Russell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilson, Russell Carrington (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio , United States |