The Seattle Seahawks didn’t see quarterback Russell Wilson as the future anymore after the 2021 season, and he was traded to the Denver Broncos. The Broncos did the same after the 2023 season and let RW3 go. In fact, no team sees Wilson as QB1 anymore, it seems.

It certainly doesn’t help that after he was benched after Week 3 for his new team, the New York Giants, Wilson has watched the team win two straight games, starting a rookie quarterback. The Giants were proven right by making Wilson sit.

He is still New York’s QB2, but he could also be expendable. The Giants also have veteran Jameis Winston, should something happen to Jaxson Dart. No matter what happens, one thing is almost certain: Wilson won’t be back with New York next year.

Former Seattle Seahawks icon Russell Wilson might be his end with the Indianapolis Colts

One ESPN NFL analyst, the wise Bill Barnwell, believes Wilson might not stay the entire season currently. Instead, he projects RW3 potentially being traded from New York, a team that will ultimately be taking vacations when the playoffs begin, to a team with a seemingly real chance of making a deep playoff push.

That team is the Indianapolis Colts. To be sure, Russell Wilson is not going to go to Indy to start. He might not even be QB3. Indianapolis’s starter is Daniel Jones, a player undergoing a career rebirth in his first season with the Colts. Anthony Richardson is still on the roster, too.

The Colts began the season 5-1, and atop the AFC South. There is no reason to expect that to change much the rest of the season.

In return for Wilson, says Barnwell, the Giants would only get a 2026 seventh-round draft pick. That’s quite the fall in value for a quarterback who, when he was traded from the Seattle Seahawks to the Broncos, brought back multiple veteran and multiple first-round picks.

That price now makes sense, though. The Giants getting anything back for Wilson at this point would be a victory. Maybe RW3 will even find himself to be a good fit in the Indianapolis Colts’ offensive system. Head coach Shane Steichen appears to know what he is doing now that he has a decent QB.

Either way, Russell Wilson is probably done with the NFL after this season. He isn’t productive anymore, and his robotic answers to reporters’ questions have become off-putting to much of the league. He might once have been trending toward being a Hall of Famer, and maybe he still gets there, but he might as well have retired after 2021.