Russell Carrington Wilson, a quarterback with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL), was born on November 29, 1988. Russell Wilson was raised in Richmond, Virginia, after being born at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati.
His parents are nursing director Tammy Wilson (previously Turner) and attorney Harrison Benjamin Wilson III. Harrison IV is his older brother, while Anna is his younger sister.
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 with the Tuckahoe Tomahawks minor football club.
Wilson’s great-great-grandfather, a slave of a Confederate colonel, was freed following the American Civil War. Wilson’s paternal grandfather, Harrison B. Wilson Jr., was a former president of Norfolk State University who also played basketball and football at Kentucky State University. Wilson’s maternal grandmother, Anna W. Wilson, was a professor at Jackson 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 a 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.
On September 1, 2022, Wilson signed a five-year, $245 million contract extension with the Broncos.
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Wilson underwent surgery after suffering mallet-finger tendon damage, a dislocation, and two fractures in his right middle finger earlier this month. Additionally, news from his camp back in October 2022 revealed that he was dealing with injuries to his throwing shoulder and suffered a hamstring injury during Monday’s loss.