Russell Wilson built his career on faith, charm and polish. Now the NFL\u2019s perennial nice guy has become proof that sincerity can backfire in professional football<\/p>\n
They say you can\u2019t win football games with too many choir boys. One choir boy might be too many in the case of Russell Wilson, the NFL\u2019s would-be Mr Congeniality. From the off the New York Giants quarterback has gone to lengths to distinguish himself as the game\u2019s most likable star, the kind of player kids look up to and opponents look out for. And all it seems to do is breed resentment.<\/p>\n
Wilson\u2019s closest collaborators struggle to speak his name without spitting. Richard Sherman, the standout former defensive back turned Prime Video analyst, begrudges Wilson for the favoritism he received from management during their years together in Seattle. KJ Wright, another prominent member of that Legion of Boom defense, accuses Wilson of betraying locker room bonds. Marshawn Lynch, the delightful but famously reticent<\/a> Seahawks running back who lined up behind Wilson for 56 Seahawks games, recalls having to ask someone in the team\u2019s front office for the QB\u2019s contact info \u2013 and Wilson calling him back from a blocked number. \u201cRuss was just a quarterback for me,\u201d Lynch said<\/a>. Just the quarterback who led the Seahawks to their first ever Super Bowl title.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russell Wilson built his career on faith, charm and polish. Now the NFL\u2019s perennial nice guy has become proof that sincerity can backfire in professional football They say you can\u2019t win football games with too many choir boys. One choir boy might be too many in the case of Russell Wilson, the NFL\u2019s would-be Mr … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}