Six years ago, the Seattle Seahawks hammered the New York Jets in an empty Lumen Field by a score of 40-3. Russell Wilson threw four touchdowns, Geno Smith came in for his first pass attempts as a Seahawks quarterback, while Jets starter Sam Darnold barely completed half his passes.
The Seahawks are now reigning Super Bowl champions in part because of the play of Darnold, who replaced Geno Smith as Seattle’s starter last season. Geno famously was the successor to Russell Wilson, the only other Super Bowl champion quarterback
in Seahawks history.
We are now faced with a world where Darnold is a champion in year two of a $100 million contract with the Seahawks, while Geno Smith is back with the Jets as the projected starter, and his backup could be… Russell Wilson. This is a distinct possibility following news that the Jets brought Wilson in for a visit, per The Athletic’s Zack Rosenblatt.
The Jets did draft former Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik in the fourth round, so there’s still a chance their QB2 is the rookie, but this would be one heck of a Seahawks story developing in the Meadowlands.
You know the story by now because we document the hell out of former Seahawks all the time: Geno’s one season with the Las Vegas Raiders was disastrous, whereas Russell’s brief stint with the New York Giants was pretty sad outside of one throwback showing against the Dallas Cowboys. At 37 years old, Wilson’s days as a starter are almost certainly over thanks to his post-Seahawks decline across three teams (most notably with the Denver Broncos in the franchise-altering trade).
Still, it’s surreal to think that Geno and Russ could be teammates once more on the franchise with the NFL’s longest active playoff drought.
