Looking to assist his client ahead of the 2012 NFL draft, Mark Rodgers recommended a meeting between Russell Wilson and Trevor Moawad, a sports psychologist whom Rodgers had met in baseball circles.
Wilson was training at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., where Moawad was a mental conditioning coach. After a successful college football career at N.C. State and Wisconsin and seasoned in handling life adversity (the death of his father) and career struggles (.229 minor-league baseball batting average), did Wilson really need another voice in his head?
“I knew I wanted it,” Wilson said during an interview with The Denver Post.