Wilson met with the Jets recently<\/a> about a role backing up Geno Smith, with the QBs previously being teammates on the Seahawks.<\/p>\nThe free-agency market had previously been quiet on Wilson, with most teams \u2014 outside of the Steelers waiting on Aaron Rodgers \u2014\u00a0set with their quarterback situation heading into training camps.<\/p>\n
And it now looks like the 37-year-old could be ending his illustrious career after he struggled in his brief time as the Giants\u2019 starting quarterback last season.<\/p>\n
Wilson started the first three games for the Giants before being benched for rookie Jaxson Dart and eventually dropped to third-string behind Jameis Winston. <\/p>\n
Russell Wilson and Ciara at the 20th Century Studios \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d World Premiere held at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on April 20, 2026 in New York City. GC Images<\/p>\n
Wilson led the Seahawks to a Super Bowl championship in 2014, the first in franchise history, when they dominated the Broncos at MetLife Stadium. <\/p>\n
Wilson spent 10 seasons in Seattle before being traded to the Broncos. He had two tumultuous seasons in Denver and butted heads with Sean Payton after he took over as head coach for Wilson\u2019s second year. Wilson then had an unremarkable season with the Steelers before signing a one-year, $10.5 million deal with the Giants.<\/p>\n
Russell Wilson started the first three games of the season for the Giants before being benched. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n
Wilson, who is married to Grammy-winning singer Ciara, has cameoed for CBS in the past, including during the last postseason. <\/p>\n
The Super Bowl champ would be replacing Matt Ryan, who left the network take over as the team president of the Falcons.<\/p>\n
Adding Wilson to CBS \u2014 joining Nate Burleson, Bill Cowher and host James Brown \u2014 would be part of the changing landscape on football networks this season.<\/p>\n
NBC has drastically changed their pregame show<\/a> \u2014 \u201cFootball Night in America \u2014 with former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin stepping in and Tony Dungy, Matt Berry and Chris Simms all being removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets are facing some competition for Russell Wilson \u2014 from CBS. Wilson is in \u201cdeep\u201d discussions with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1871,7640,9,2683,11,430,10,22,4088,319,2085],"class_list":["post-216904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-cbs","tag-geno-smith","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-russell-wilson","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}