To say that quarterback Zach Wilson hasn’t lived as much as his draft standing could be an understatement. The New York Jets chosen Wilson with the No. 2 general decide within the 2021 NFL Draft and he by no means gave them the manufacturing of a franchise quarterback.
A lot in order that they traded for an ageing — albeit four-time MVP — Aaron Rodgers and have since traded Wilson to the Denver Broncos.
The Broncos are hoping that Wilson will thrive due to the recent begin, and take into account that Denver’s head coach, Sean Payton, is considerably of a quarterback whisperer. He is carried out nice issues in his profession with the likes of Drew Brees and Taysom Hill as a head coach and as an assistant, he labored with each Vinny Testaverde and Drew Bledsoe. That is not even to say the 2023 season, which noticed the Broncos go 8-9 with an — arguably — washed-up Russell Wilson.
So sure, there’s hope that Payton will help flip issues round for Wilson. Much more so whenever you understand that Payton particularly wished to go get the 24-year-old quarterback from the Jets.
“We simply felt like, ‘Man, we’d like to work with this man.’ It wasn’t too way back, we bear in mind grading him. Felt the funding was value it, relative to his skillset and his expertise,” Payton lately informed the media (h/t On3). “We spent the higher a part of a month and a half engaged on that commerce.”
The Broncos despatched over a 2024 sixth-round decide (No. 203, which did not even stick with the Jets) in return for Wilson, so one will get the sense that they view this as a low-risk, high-reward kind scenario.
On one hand, Wilson might stay the quarterback who has thrown for 25 interceptions in comparison with 23 touchdowns over three seasons. That is the unhealthy.
On the opposite?
Maybe the star quarterback who wowed at BYU continues to be out there. If he’s, Payton is definitely the coach to search out it.
