{"id":627373,"date":"2026-05-06T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627373\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:57:06","slug":"russell-wilson-jets-made-an-offer-weighing-that-and-tv-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627373\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Wilson: Jets made an offer, weighing that and TV opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Wilson has reached a fork in the road in his career. <\/p>\n<p>Wilson visited the Jets last week to talk to the team <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/free-agent-qb-russell-wilson-visits-jets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">about coming aboard<\/a> as a backup quarterback behind his former Seahawks teammate Geno Smith and there was a report later in the week that Wilson has also been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-russell-wilson-could-join-cbs-in-lieu-of-playing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">talking to networks<\/a> about a television role. Wilson confirmed that on Tuesday while saying he\u2019s also mulling an offer from the Jets to continue his playing career. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/06\/sports\/russell-wilson-tells-the-post-hes-mulling-jets-contract-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was great<\/a>,\u201d Wilson said, via Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post. \u201cThey offered me, and I\u2019m trying to figure out what the next best thing is for me to do. I still know I can play ball at a high level, but also I have an opportunity to do TV, so we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no word on the details of the offer that the Jets made to Wilson, who began last season as the Giants\u2019 starter but ended it as their third-string quarterback. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Wilson has reached a fork in the road in his career. Wilson visited the Jets last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-627373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}