Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is a lot of things. He’s an NFL superstar, a baseball player, an entrepreneur, a team owner, an investor, a philanthropist and now – at least for a brief time during Seattle’s preseason victory over the Raiders – Wilson is an offensive coordinator.
Wilson did not play on Thursday, as the team elected to get one final look at Geno Smith and Paxton Lynch as they continued their competition to back him up this season.
However, Wilson was not content just standing on the sideline and took over as Seattle’s primary play-caller on offense for the entire second quarter, donning a headset and funneling plays to Smith and eventually Lynch.
“Russ is a great play-caller actually,” Smith commented after the game. “I was impressed. He dialed up what we talked about earlier. He said he was going to dial up a few things and he was right on cue. We went out there and we executed, so we made him look good tonight, he did a great job. It was great to see him do that, that was pretty cool.”
Wilson’s offensive scheme saw Seattle march 52 yards on four plays for a touchdown on his opening drive, which included a 41-yard reception from Smith to Jazz Ferguson and an 11-yard touchdown to Jacob Hollister.
Lynch quarterbacked Wilson’s final drive as play-caller, and the drive stalled – a fact that coach Pete Carroll was quick to point out – but Wilson may have found yet another potential career option when his time behind center ends.
