Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson will return to college Saturday in a new role, giving the spring commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin.
Wilson attended Wisconsin for his final season of college in 2011-12, but as a press release announcing his speaking engagement notes, he was not able to attend his own college graduation (he got his ungraduate degree from North Carolina State in communications before attending Wisconsin as a graduate student in educational leadership and policy analysis.
As the Wisconsin press release noted at the time “commencement speakers are selected and recommended by senior class officers.