Quarterback Russell Wilson has signed a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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00:00 Your reaction when you saw the deal get done, especially for $1.2 million.
00:05 Yeah, for the first time in my life, or the first time since I was like 12 years old,
00:09 I went to bed at 11 o'clock at night and that clearly was a mistake.
00:14 You know, I wake up in the morning, I roll over, I look at my phone and I'm just, it's
00:19 the, like, I'm still trying to pry my eyes open when I see tweets about Russell Wilson.
00:24 Yes.
00:25 It was crazy.
00:26 I mean, I feel like we expected it for a while, to be quite honest.
00:30 After he made the Steelers his first real official meeting, I feel like it was kind
00:34 of predetermined from there.
00:35 It was destined or it felt like this thing was pretty much locked in.
00:41 Its immediate reaction, it's, you know, I'm pretty willing to call it a slam dunk.
00:48 I don't see a downside to this.
00:50 He's signing for a vet minimum.
00:51 This is a guy who can raise their ceiling.
00:54 He doesn't lower their floor.
00:56 There's an easy way out if this doesn't work out because he's only making $1.2 million.
01:01 And it still, I think, leaves the door open for Kenny Pickett if you still think he's
01:05 the guy.
01:06 They have so many options.
01:08 This gives the Steelers, I think, a higher probability of going further in the playoffs
01:14 and reaching a little bit higher.
01:15 I don't really see a downside, quite frankly, to this signing.
01:20 I mean, it's a risk in terms of, well, maybe it doesn't work out, but that's the same with
01:26 any free agent signing or any quarterback addition.
01:30 And I think a lot of people are going to look at this and say, "Is Russell Wilson capable
01:36 of competing with the Josh Allens and the Patrick Mahomes and the Lamar Jacksons of
01:40 the AFC?"
01:41 And look, Russell Wilson probably isn't an elite guy at this point, but I don't know.
01:48 It's better than any other option the Steelers had, to be quite honest with you, unless you
01:51 wanted to dump a bunch of money into Kirk Cousins.
01:54 This is probably the best that you got right now.