A disastrous tenure with the Denver Broncos has hurt the football image of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson, but he’s got a golden opportunity to prove that he can still play like the top-tier quarterback that he used to be during his prime years with the Seattle Seahawks. Many think that Wilson’s stint with the Steelers is a lifeline to his waning career, a notion that Rich Eisen thinks the quarterback is acknowledging.
“The opportunity that he got is one that I didn’t think he was gonna get,” Eisen said during a recent The Rich Eisen Show episode (h/t Ross McCorkle of Steelers Depot).
“Which was the Pittsburgh Steelers raising their hand and basically inserting him into a situation where [as if] he had been there for eight years, not like eight days,” Eisen said in a clip from his podcast posted on YouTube. “And what he has done is realize this potential last best chance to be a starting quarterback in this league with a real shot to go to a Super Bowl and breathe life back into a Hall of Fame trajectory.”
Russell Wilson needs
to fully capitalize in his chance with the Pittsburgh Steelers
It is hard to imagine a future where Wilson will be an unquestionable No. 1 quarterback on a team again if things don’t work out for him in 2024 with the Steelers, who inked him to a one-year $1.21 million contract last March.
In two years with the Broncos, Wilson went just 11-19 as a starter while passing for 6,594 yards and 42 touchdowns against 19 interceptions.
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