Jordan RaananMar 25, 2025, 06:51 PM ET
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- Jordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and will also be heard website hosting on ESPN Radio. Raanan joined ESPN in 2016.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants reached settlement with Tremendous Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson on a one-year deal price as much as $21 million, together with $10.5 million assured, resources advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Tuesday.
The ten-time Professional Bowl variety have been in discussions with the Giants, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers, however is choosing New York, the place he gained Tremendous Bowl XLVIII in MetLife Stadium as a member of the Seattle Seahawks.
Now, Wilson is returning because the Giants’ projected beginning quarterback, and he indicated Tuesday evening he is excited to be again.
Been right here ahead of… can not wait to do it once more. #MetLife @Giants %.twitter.com/6BevBmOLKW
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) March 26, 2025
The settlement between Wilson and the Giants removes New York as a possible choice this season for Aaron Rodgers, resources advised Schefter.
It additionally leaves Rodgers and the Steelers — Wilson’s former crew — ready to determine their very own settlement, if the quarterback makes a decision he needs to play this season.
The addition of Wilson comes simply days after the Giants agreed to phrases with Jameis Winston. Their quarterback room now is composed of Wilson, Winston and Tommy DeVito.
The veteran Winston agreed to a two-year, $8 million contract with the crew ultimate week. The phrases of his contract indicated it was once extra a backup-level deal. DeVito is a holdover who seemed in 12 video games for the crew the previous two seasons.
The eventual signing of Wilson, 36, does now not get rid of the potential of the Giants taking a quarterback in subsequent month’s NFL draft. New York these days holds the No. 3 select, and proprietor John Mara mentioned on the finish of this previous season that the crew’s most sensible precedence and “No. 1 factor” was once to discover a quarterback of the long run. Wilson, Winston and DeVito are not on long-term offers.
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Wilson opting for the Giants is smart; a supply advised ESPN at first of the offseason that he was once fascinated by creating a transfer to New York.
It was once additionally believed that Wilson initiated a gathering with the Giants ultimate offseason. However the Giants were not prepared to provide him the beginning process ultimate 12 months. They had been intent on giving Daniel Jones yet one more likelihood. As a substitute, Wilson landed in Pittsburgh, and Jones started the season because the Giants’ starter however was once benched and minimize ahead of the season concluded.
Wilson signed a one-year contract with the Steelers at the eve of unfastened company ultimate offseason. Despite the fact that he was once hampered through a lingering calf harm during coaching camp and the primary six weeks of the season, he in the end changed Justin Fields as Pittsburgh’s starter in Week 7 and went 6-1 in his first seven begins.
However after that early good fortune, Wilson and the Steelers ended the 2024 season on a five-game dropping streak. He threw simplest six landing passes, became over the ball 4 occasions and took 18 sacks in that reach. Wilson completed the season with a 6-5 file because the starter with 16 landing passes to 5 interceptions. He finished 63.7% of his passes and was once sacked 33 occasions.
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Earlier than ultimate season in Pittsburgh, Wilson spent two seasons with the Denver Broncos, who signed him to a five-year, $242.6 million deal after obtaining him in an enormous business with the Seahawks. However the Broncos went simply 11-19 throughout Wilson’s tenure and did not make the playoffs, and he was once launched through the crew ultimate March regardless of his contract wearing greater than $85 million in lifeless cash after his go out.
Wilson landed in Denver in 2022, when the Broncos despatched 5 draft alternatives, together with two first-rounders, and 3 gamers to the Seahawks in change for the quarterback.
Wilson spent his first 10 years with the Seahawks and threw two landing passes in Seattle’s Tremendous Bowl XLVIII win. He has 46,135 passing yards, a 64.7% final touch share (3,882 for six,001) and 350 landing passes to 111 interceptions over a 13-year occupation.
ESPN’s Brooke Pryor contributed to this record.
