It’s been 10 years since Russell Wilson fell all the way down to the third round in the 2012 NFL Draft, and even though a decade has now gone by, one NFL owner still has major regrets about the fact that his team passed on Wilson after eyeing him in the weeks leading up to the draft.
That owner is Philadelphia’s Jeffrey Lurie, and he recently admitted that missing out on Wilson is something he’ll “always regret.’
“[Wilson] is a player we didn’t get, and I’ll always regret it,” Lurie said at the NFL’s annual league meeting last week, via DelawareOnline.com. “It was someone I really wish we had drafted in the second round and didn’t wait. But we really didn’t think that anyone would jump us and take Russell, so that was that.”
When teams start talking about star players they missed out on in drafts of the past, there can sometimes be some revisionist history involved, but that definitely isn’t the case here. In…
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