2016 Seahawks Recap, Week 1: On One Leg
Momentarily trapped between the ground and Ndamukong Suh’s foot, Wilson’s ankle twisted around itself like a wrung towel. It left him playing as if he were living on a swivel. At one point, his foot was so flat he side-armed a throw into the dirt. He would later joke, “When I’m 43, 44, 45 years old, that’s probably what I’ll look like out there.”
In the fourth quarter, Wilson’s oft-mentioned “championship mentality” kicked in. He scrambled for four yards and began to walk with a healthier stride. The injury did have a silver lining of sorts. The offense abandoned the bootlegs and the draws and put Wilson at the helm of a shotgun-oriented spread offense, which Wilson used to negate the pass rush and slice and dice the secondary.