There could be three quarterbacks on the move this offseason that no one expected to be available.
The Seattle Seahawks and Russell Wilson have reportedly fallen on bad terms, Dak Prescott still has no deal with the Dallas Cowboys, and Deshaun Watson is trying to get as far away from the Houston Texans as possible. If you could pick up one of these three, who would you take?
Russell Wilson is a Super Bowl champion, an eight-time Pro Bowl selection, led the NFL in passer rating in 2015 and led the NFL in touchdowns in 2017. His career completion percentage is 65.1%. He throws a touchdown 6.1% of the time and throws an interception just 1.9% of the time.
Last season, Wilson had a passer rating of 101.7. He’s not happy with the talent that Seattle has put around him and while he’s stopped short of requesting a trade, he has a few teams on his list of places he would go. The Dallas Cowboys, the New Orleans Saints, the Las Vegas Raiders and the Chicago Bears are the teams he would accept a trade to, according to a conversation ESPN’s Adam Schefter’s had with Wilson’s agent. The only team on Russell’s list to have a winning season last year was the New Orleans Saints at 12-4.
“He’s a winner, you know he’s a winner. For my money, I would probably roll the dice on Russell Wilson,” Your Boy Q, host of Locked On Raiders said on the Locked On Today Podcast.
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But Wilson is not the only quarterback worth considering. “There are 31 teams who would be smart to consider giving up almost whatever for Deshaun Watson,” Peter Bukowski, host of Locked On Today, said as he explained on the show why he would take Watson.
Deshaun Watson has been selected to the Pro Bowl three times and was the NFL’s leading passer in 2020. He has a career completion percentage of 67.8%, throws a touchdown 5.9% of the time and throws an interception 2.1% of the time.
Last season, he had a passer rating of 104.5. Watson has been extremely vocal about wanting to leave Houston after the team did not involve him in the hiring of their new head coach, David Culley. The two met last Friday and reports are that Watson told him he has no intention of suiting up for the team again.
Dak Prescott is the least likely of the three to move on to a new team, but that doesn’t mean the relationship between him and the Cowboys is any better than Deshaun's with Houston or Russell's with Seattle. Heading into the 2020 season, Prescott and the Cowboys could not agree to a deal and Prescott played under the franchise tag. Then Prescott had to have surgery after a season-ending ankle injury, which led to Andy Dalton taking over under center for the Cowboys.
This off-season, the talk is the same. The Cowboys want to get a deal done with Prescott as soon as possible. That’s the same thing they wanted last season and nothing ever happened. The Cowboys can franchise tag Dak Prescott again this offseason if they cannot reach a deal, but that would all but guarantee Prescott is on a new team in 2022.
And then the carousel begins again.
