Baltimore Ravens @ Seattle Seahawks: Russell Wilson playing at MVP level

Oct 20, 2019
Marion van den Hoeven

Russell Wilson continues his bid for Its Most Valuable Player award when the Seattle Seahawks host the Baltimore Ravens exclusively live on Sky Sports Action and Main Event on Sunday.

There can be absolutely no denying Wilson is playing at an MVP level.
Patrick Mahomes seemed to be and could still be – Wilson’s biggest competition. However, his injury to his right knee on Thursday Night Football – a crushing setback for its league – has surely now entrenched Wilson in the peak of the pile.
There are valid arguments to be put forward for Carolina Panthers however, Wilson was arguably streaking before the harm to Mahomes.
Before the Kansas City Chiefs’ interview with the Denver Broncos on Thursday night, Wilson’s passer rating of 124.7 was already 12.8 points higher compared to the next best player in Mahomes.
Through six matches to date this season, Wilson has accounted 17 touchdowns – 14 departure and three racing – and is to throw one interception.
His average 284 pass yards per game, 72.5 conclusion percentage, nine-yards-per-attempt average and passer evaluation are all career-high marks.
And these numbers are not a consequence of any particular scheme that matches any game-managing Wilson, or even any greatness .
Quite the contrary. This Seattle Seahawks team is carried by wilson. And he does this while attempting and, more frequently than not, completing the most difficult throws.
According to Next Gen Stats, Wilson cries outside the figures on 59.3 percent of his efforts the highest speed in the NFL – and that he concludes 70.5 per cent of such pitches, a marker most quarterbacks would be satisfied with on simpler curb insecurities. He has nine of his touchdowns when projecting out the numbers and also a 121.4 passer rating.
Does Wilson excel in with an departure game, but he is still a threat with his legs too.
He might not possess the 460 rushing yards his rival this weekend – Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson – has during the initial six weeks of the season, but Wilson’s 151 is still good enough for fifth.
Additionally , long gone are the times that Wilson had to do everything. Its no coincidence that the only time in his eight years in the NFL Wilson has failed to make the movie was in 2017, when he accounted for each one of those Seahawks’ offensive touchdowns.
Teams knew if Wilson could be bottled by them – a task said than done – that Seattle didn’t have anyone. That’s not true for 2019, together with his 504 racing yards and Chris Carson through six games helping to take some of the heat off Wilson.
However despite Wilson victory, along with the fine start to the season of also the team, the Seahawks are not receiving the attention they deserve, but heading unnoticed at the NFC West.
The Los Angeles Rams might be in the middle of a three-game losing streak, but they are still new off a Super Bowl run last year, although the San Francisco 49ers have taken out to a 5-0 start – one of just two teams in the league still unbeaten, together with the New England Patriots.
Not helping that story is the simple fact that the 49ers and Seahawks have both beaten four of the same opponents through six months of their schedule – Cincinnati Bengals, Pittsburgh Steelers, Rams and Cleveland Browns – with Seattle just squeezing out a +8 stage metering, whereas San Francisco have dismantled the same opposition to the tune of +69 points.
However, while it is the defense which has shone over that stretch, it’s thanks to Wilson the Seahawks edged from the four close experiences and currently sit.
The 30-29 win over the Rams in Week Five, in particular, was a statement game, using Wilson projecting for four touchdowns and 268 yards against the NFC champs of the past year. An MVP-worthy functionality.
“Each of those games – since there’ve only been five [now six] thus much – has so much significance,” Around the NFL’s Chris Wesseling told Sky Sports. “And a week’s match for Russell Wilson was that game you return at the close of the season and say yes, that’s when he left his candidacy.
“That week, he also took it , which was the stuff which MVPs are made of and he is my choice.”
The Seahawks are sitting for just the second time in Wilson’s career in 5-1. The last time that they did so was in 2013, in their way to winning Super Bowl XLVIII.
They returned to the large game year, enduring a reduction on the final play of the game – .
Since, that Legion of Boom squad has gradually been chipped away at over time, divided as players have sought out chances (and currency ) elsewhere or have been pressured to.
Wilson, meanwhile, has become the continuous, rallying his team into the playoffs in each season aside from the 2017 misnomer, also was – and rightly – rewarded for his efforts with a new $35 million a season contract extension this offseason, which makes him the highest-paid player in the NFL.
During six matches of 2019, it looks money.
Watch all of Sunday’s action live on Sky Sports Action from 5pm on Sunday; Ravens-Seahawks kick-off reaches 9.25pm.

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