Give Russell Wilson 15 yards for poetic license, or as it’s known in North Carolina, illegal use of embellishment.
But you’ve got to give the guy credit: He knows a good narrative when he lives it.
For a commencement speech that’s garnering as much attention — positive and negative — as Wilson’s address to the University of Wisconsin’s graduating class of 2016 last weekend, it’s pretty boiler-plate. Standard-issue Wilson.
After four seasons of Wilson in Seattle, you know the high points: All the people who told him why he couldn’t succeed. The doubters who provided obstacles on his road to the NFL.