A current quarterback in the NFL, and one whose public persona is mostly for choosing his words as carefully as he crafts his image, might not have seemed like the most logical fit to replace a man who had become one of ESPN’s ultimate wildcards.
But one night sitting in his hotel room in Orlando, Fla., ESPN producer Jay Rothman hatched on to the idea that Russell Wilson somehow made sense to take over for Jon Gruden’s famous role hosting the network’s QB Camp series.
As Rothman told it in a phone interview last week, one of Wilson’s confidants — Daniel Mogg, who is the creative director for Wilson’s West2East Empire marketing arm — approached him at the Pro Bowl in Orlando (ESPN was televising the game in which Wilson was playing).