Not long ago, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson had a live-in physical therapist. He would wake up in the middle of the night for intensive round-the-clock treatment on his sprained MCL suffered in Week 3.
That came after an ankle sprain in Week 1, and combined, those early injuries reduced one of the league’s most athletically gifted quarterbacks to an unfamiliar form. He was hobbled and at times a one-legged passer. Wilson was still effective enough, but the Seahawks offense just isn’t the same without a quarterback who invites chaos and then thrives on it.