When Wilson was four years old, he began playing football with his father and brother. In the sixth grade, he took part in his first official game for the Tuckahoe Tomahawks minor football club.
After the American Civil War, the great-great-grandfather of Wilson who was a slave to a Confederate colonel was set free.
Russell Wilson grew up in Richmond, Virginia after being born at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. His parents are Tammy Wilson (née Turner), a nurse director, and lawyer Harrison Benjamin Wilson III. Harrison IV is his older brother, while Anna is his younger sister.
Wilson’s maternal grandmother, Anna W. Wilson, was a professor at Jackson State University, and his paternal grandpa, Harrison B. Wilson Jr., was a former president of Norfolk State University who also played basketball and football for Kentucky State University.
In college, he threw for 3,287 passing yards and 40 touchdowns as a junior in 2005, while also rushing for 634 yards and 15 scores. He was selected as an all-state, all-region, and all-district performer. Wilson won the Richmond Times-Dispatch Player of the Year award twice.
Born on November 29, 1988, Russell Carrington Wilson is an American football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL).
Who Is Russell Wilson’s Girlfriend?
Wilson is a married man. He walked down the aisle with Ciara, an American R&B singer. Early in 2015, they started dating, and on March 11, 2016, they declared their engagement.
On July 6, 2016, they exchanged vows at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, England. She had a son with Future, who is now his stepson. 28th April 2017 saw the birth of their daughter. They made the announcement that they were expecting their second child together on January 30, 2020.
Wilson was previously married to Ashton Meem who he met while they were both high school students. They married in January 2012 and divorced in April 2014.