Russell Wilson was born in The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Harrison Benjamin Wilson III, an attorney, and Tammy Wilson (formerly Turner), a nursing director, are his parents.
He has an older brother named Harrison IV and a younger sister named Anna. Wilson started playing football with his father and brother when he was four years old. He played in his first official game for the Tuckahoe Tomahawks minor football team in the sixth grade.
After the American Civil War, the great-great-grandfather of Wilson who was a slave to a Confederate colonel was set free.
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.
A. B. Jackson, a well-known painter, was Wilson’s maternal grandfather. Wilson is 62% African, 36% European, 1% West Asian, and 1% Central Asian, according to DNA admixture study. His European ancestry can be traced back to Saint Arnulf of Metz in 524 AD through Charlemagne.
Wilson also claims to be of Native American descent, though he has not specified which tribe he is a member of. Wilson attended Richmond, Virginia’s Collegiate School, a prep school.
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).
Russell Wilson’s Contract, Salary and Net Worth
He signed a 5 year, $242,588,236 contract with the Denver Broncos, including a $50,000,000 signing bonus, $161,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $48,517,647.
In 2022, Wilson will earn a base salary of $2,000,000, a signing bonus of $50,000,000 and a roster bonus of $5,000,000, while carrying a cap hit of $17,000,000 and a dead cap value of $124,000,000.
His net worth as of October 2016 is $120 million.