{"id":480062,"date":"2024-03-11T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480062"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:10:34","slug":"wilson-to-ink-a-1-year-contract-with-steelers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wilson-to-ink-a-1-year-contract-with-steelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson to ink a 1-year contract with Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Bowl champ <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/russell-wilson\/\">Russell Wilson<\/a> plans to ink with the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">$1.2 million: how much the Steelers will pay to sign Russell Wilson<\/p>\n<p>$37.8 million: how much the Broncos will pay Russell Wilson not to play for them <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HlEYoIVbOG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HlEYoIVbOG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1767186561186054578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The quarterback will ink a 1-campaign contract for the veteran&#8217;s minimum, which is 1.2 million dollars. The Denver Broncos, who informed him that they will cut him, will pay the rest of Russell\u2019s almost 38 million dollar salary while he plays for the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>The 9-time Pro Bowl quarterback shared on social media: &#8220;Year 13. Grateful.&#8221; The video featured Pittsburgh and their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>With permission from Denver, because Wilson is still under deal until the start of the NFL\u2019s new year in 2 days, the QB visited with Steelers officials for almost 7 hours at the end of the past week. Russell discussed his future with manager Mike Tomlin and new OC Arthur Smith. The 2 sides were happy about the talks, and that led to the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran QB (35) was informed by the Broncos that he would be cut on Wednesday, ending a disappointing 2-year run with the franchise in which they didn\u2019t make it to the postseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russell Wilson is headed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a> on a 1-year, $1.2M deal.<\/p>\n<p>His stats in 2023:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 15 games<br \/>\u2022 66.4% completion rate<br \/>\u2022 3,070 passing yards<br \/>\u2022 6.9 yards per attempt, 204.7 yards per game<br \/>\u2022 26 pass TDs &#8211; 8 INTs<br \/>\u2022 98.0 passer rating<br \/>\u2022 341 rushing yards, 3 TDs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P6Qj6WOL2L\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/P6Qj6WOL2L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL Stats (@NFL_Stats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL_Stats\/status\/1767149308736893419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Bowl champ Russell Wilson plans to ink with the Pittsburgh Steelers. $1.2 million: how much the Steelers will pay to sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480063,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,17148,17459],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873,18446,19775],"acf":{"announce":"Nine-time Pro Bowl QB will sign for 1 season with Pittsburgh.","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\/480062"}],"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=480062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480064,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480062\/revisions\/480064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480062"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480062"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}