Russell Wilson on pressure: ‘I wear’t run from it. I appearance forward to it.’

The 2022 NFL season was an outright mess for the Denver Broncos. Quarterback Russell Wilson had perhaps the worst season of his profession, and the group hadahardtime so strongly that first-year head coach Nathaniel Hackett was fired after simply 15 videogames.

With Sean Payton now at the helm in Denver, the Broncos face a stiff AFC West slate that consistsof the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders, and there’s a lot of pressure on Wilson to right the ship. Wilson justrecently stated that he isn’t fazed by the pressure and, if anything, he’ll “run to it” as opposed to shying away from it.

On Thursday’s edition of “The Carton Show,” FOX Sports NFL expert Greg Jennings made the case for why Wilson is fullyequipped to get back on track in 2023.

“Why can’t he bounce back?” Jennings asked. “He [has] been a excellent quarterback in this league. For me, you modification from top-down. You switch out who’s interacting, who’s putting into him, who’s making those deposits — the proper type of deposits — and you permit him to then thrive. 

“This is why you acquire Sean Payton duetothefactthat you think you have someone Russell Wilson is going to listen to.”

Last season, Wilson amountedto 3,524 passing backyards, 16 goals, 11 interceptions and an 84.4 passer score, finishing 60.5% of his passes. The passing goals, passer score and conclusion portion were all a profession worst. To boot, Denver balanced simply 16.9 points per videogame, the worst mark in the NFL.

Prior to landing in Denver, Wilson made 9 Pro Bowl lineups and won Super Bowl XLVIII with the Seattle Seahawks. Denver traded a first- and second-round draft choice to the New Orleans Saints to acquire Payton — who took a year off from training in 2022 — and a third-rounder.

That stated, Craig Carton argued that history is versus Wilson, 34, reanimating his profession.

“There are no examples in the history of the NFL of a quarterback in his mid-30s playing as poor as he played last year and all of a unexpected uncovering the waterfountain of youth and endingupbeing an All-Pro, “Carton stated. “It has neverever tookplace inthepast.”

To make matters evenworse, Wilson might be without star large receiver Jerry Jeudy, who was hauled off the field with an obvious hamstring injury in a joint practice with the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday, for the foreseeable future. The Broncos’ getting corps is currently without wideouts Tim Patrick, who tore his left Achilles tendon early in camp, and Jalen Virgil, who continual a season-ending knee injury in the Broncos’ preseason videogame last week.

Wilson and the Broncos start the 2023 routine season on Sept. 10, as they host the competitor Raiders.