Russell Wilson has always faced challenges as a short quarterback. Under 6-0, it’s been a knock on him throughout his career. But over his two years in Denver, the numbers made it feel like he had shrunk. Stemming from a conversation Dave Bryan and I had on last week’s Terrible Podcast, we pulled up data on the number of passes Wilson had batted down the last two years. The numbers were striking.
Over the past two seasons, Wilson has the fifth-most passes batted down at the line of scrimmage. In total, 30 of them were swatted away as a member of the Broncos.