He’s not at his best, though. He has a partial tear of a back muscle near his right shoulder and underwent a platelet-rich plasma injection 10 days ago.
No question, the numbers don’t look good after Russell Wilson’s first five games with the Denver Broncos after he signed a mammoth five-year contract potentially worth $245 million following a stellar 10-year tenure with the Seattle Seahawks. He hardly looks like the same quarterback.
Wilson threw for 65 touchdowns in his final two seasons with the Seahawks, including a career-best 40 in 16 games in 2020. He has only four touchdown passes in five games so far with the Broncos, and they have averaged a mere 15 points a game with Wilson at the helm.So, the Chargers prepared for the Wilson of old rather than the Wilson of today. They’re taking nothing for granted when they play host to Wilson and the Broncos on Monday night at SoFi Stadium.
“You have a decade worth of film of Russell Wilson, if you need a reminder — which we’ve given our guys a reminder of — a decade worth of film of him being one of the top players in the league,” Chargers coach Brandon Staley said when asked about preparing to face the underachieving Broncos. Or, as Chargers defensive coordinator Renaldo Hill put it earlier in the week when asked about facing Wilson and the Broncos, “We all know Russell. If he gets going, it can be a scary movie. That can happen at any point, so we have to make sure that we’re prepared and ready to go.”Wilson is not at his best, though.
“He doesn’t complain,” Hackett said. “He keeps his head down, he works hard, and he does everything he can to make his body feel as good as he possibly can throughout the season. I think that you’re always dealing with that stuff across the board, but I do think that he’s doing an amazing job getting himself to 100%.”
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