The debate over Russell Wilson’s Hall of Fame credentials won’t really matter until five years after he retires. But it came up once again on Thursday Night when Tony Gonzalez and Richard Sherman both essentially declared that the Seattle Seahawks’ greatest QB is not a Hall of Famer.
Gonzalez began the conversation by saying that Wilson has played himself out of the Hall of Fame over the last four years. Wilson’s former Seattle teammate Sherman then piled on by pointing out that Wilson was only successful when he played alongside the Legion of Boom. The implication was that without an elite defense, Wilson was nothing special
There are a lot of ways to look at this debate, and speaking as someone who believes Wilson has a very good case for induction, I admit that statements like this – especially coming from a former teammate – suggest that Canton may never come calling for the only QB thus far to lead Seattle to a Lombardi Trophy.