Officially, Russell Wilson won’t return. Agreeing to a one-year deal with the New York Giants yesterday, he’s starting fresh. So are the Pittsburgh Steelers. Despite Art Rooney II and Omar Khan’s repeated commentary of wanting to retain Justin Fields or Wilson, they clearly had no interest in the latter. Yesterday’s signing sealed that but the writing was on the wall from the moment the team failed to pivot to Wilson after losing out on Fields.
Wilson wanted to return. I take him at his word. Pittsburgh had other ideas.
So what happened? How did Wilson and Mike Tomlin seem like the perfect match one year ago to letting him sign with the Giants?