{"id":479715,"date":"2024-03-06T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479715"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:34:07","slug":"denver-allows-wilson-to-talk-to-organizations-before-release","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/denver-allows-wilson-to-talk-to-organizations-before-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver allows Wilson to talk to organizations before release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before free agency starts in a few days, the Denver Broncos allowed QB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/russell-wilson\/\">Russell Wilson<\/a> to start speaking and meeting with other franchises in their home cities immediately.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Before free agency begins next week, the Broncos have given soon-to-be-released quarterback Russell Wilson permission to immediately begin speaking and meeting with other teams in their home cities, per sources. Wilson\u2019s free agency begins now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PyXei2q6Tm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PyXei2q6Tm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1765377481924547010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Denver shared at the beginning of the week that Russell will be cut after the 2024 NFL campaign starts March 13<sup>th<\/sup>, a decision that will end the quarterback&#8217;s 2-year run with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>After the news broke out, Russell shared that tough times don&#8217;t last, but tough humans do, and that is looking with optimism to the future.<\/p>\n<p>Denver went 11-19 in Russell\u2019s starts over 2 campaigns and failed to reach the postseason. Manager Sean Payton benched him with 2 matches remaining in the past season, a move that marked the end of Wilson\u2019s career with the Broncos. Russell had passed for 3,070 yards with 26 TDs and 8 picks in his time with Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise inked the quarterback to a 5-year, almost 243 million-dollar contract after an exchange with the Seattle Seahawks 2 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before free agency starts in a few days, the Denver Broncos allowed QB Russell Wilson to start speaking and meeting with other franchises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16777,17324,17459],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18128,17873,19775],"acf":{"announce":"Broncos to let the quarterback discuss his future with other teams before being cut.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479718,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479715\/revisions\/479718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479715"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479715"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}