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Holmgren: Russell Wilson should sign fair deal from Seattle

Former Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren thinks Russell Wilson would be making a huge mistake to play out the 2015 NFL season under his current contract.

Wilson is set to earn just $1.5 million if he and the Seahawks don’t get a deal done before the start of training camp—a self-imposed deadline. Many have wondered if Seattle has been low-balling the young star quarterback—a notion Holmgren summarily dismissed in a recent appearance on The Erik Kuselias Show on NBC Sports Radio.

“I know this, without going into the numbers,” Holmgren said (h/t Pro Football Talk).