Russell Wilson‘s first season as a member of the Denver Broncos continues to be a complete disaster.
For a while during Monday Night Football, the Broncos offense appeared to be turning a corner. Wilson completed all 10 of his first quarter passes, and they led the Los Angeles Chargers 10-0. However, the same stagnant offense that we’ve seen through the first five weeks of the NFL season showed for the remainder of the game.
Wilson was 3-of-11 for 15 yards in the second half before ultimately losing to their AFC West rival, 19-16 in overtime. To make matters worse, the quarterback revealed that he suffered a hamstring issue during the fourth quarter.
“I kind of scrambled to move around on one, I had to throw it away, it kind of got me pretty good in the fourth quarter,” Wilson said to ESPN. “Just tried to play through it … just trying to find a way to win the game.”
He was treated for the injury after the game and will now likely head for an MRI. During the Broncos’ Week 4 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, Wilson suffered a partial tear in his right shoulder.
“Shoulder did good, but listen, the only thing that matters is us winning,” Wilson said. “Not going to sugarcoat it, the only thing matters is us winning … there’s no excuse for it, we’ve got to find a way.”
This season is clearly not what Wilson thought he was signing up for and certainly not what fans expected when the star QB was sent to Denver in a massive offseason trade before inking a five-year, $245 million contract extension just before the start of the season.
“This is very disappointing,” Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett said Monday night. “We need to have a lot more urgency across the board — it starts with me as a coach, then all of the other coaches, then to the players. Players need to be just more urgent. … We’ve got to execute at a higher level, and we’ve got to come up with some better plays.”
At 2-4, Wilson and the Broncos will now hope they can turn the corner in Week 7, when they’re set to host the up-and-coming New York Jets on Sunday afternoon.
