Ever since the Denver Broncos benched starting quarterback Russell Wilson at the end of the season, it has been long assumed that the team would part ways with him at the end of the season. No official decision has been made on that matter, but it sounds like the final word could be coming in the near future.
During his press conference at the NFL Combine on Tuesday, Sean Payton said that he thinks the team will have a final decision on Russell Wilson “within the next two weeks.”
“We go through the combine week here. Next week, I think Tuesday, Wednesday, we’ll be in meetings with ownership. And so I expect that we’re going to know fairly quickly,” Payton said according to Pro Football Talk. “There’s a couple of factors here. Obviously, the cap projections came out. We’re further down the road with the draft class, obviously the pro free agents. So, I would anticipate it within the next two weeks.”
The team is widely expected to part ways with Wilson after two disappointing seasons as the team’s starting quarterback, but Wilson has recently made it very clear that he would like to remain with the team.
So it will certainly be interesting to see what the team decides to do.
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