Broncos QB Russell Wilson is bringing the long ball back to Mile High

Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson is bringing the long ball back to the Mile High City. Wilson is one of the league’s top deep ball throwers.

I don’t know that it’s fully set in yet for Denver Broncos Country that Russell Wilson is the team’s quarterback.

One thing that will help make things seem real?

A classic Russell Wilson deep ball touchdown in orange and blue.

Throughout his NFL career, if Russell Wilson has proven nothing else, he’s proven that he is one of the elite deep ball throwers in the NFL. The long ball is his specialty, no matter if he’s playing football or baseball…

Wilson has been hitting BP dingers for a decade at this point, but he’s been doing the football equivalent just as long, and not just in practice.

Wilson’s long ball game as a football player is bordering on legendary at this point.

Wilson’s game has obviously evolved since that tweet, which was posted after the 2019 season. The Next Gen Stats era goes back to 2016 and Wilson has largely dominated their “air yards” statistics in that timeframe.

Although that particular stat graphic is outdated at this point, Wilson also has four throws on the NGS list of top 25 air yard completions, and those are just the longest throws completed over the last five seasons.

His contributions all came from 2020 or 2021.

Look at this graphic CBS posted around Christmastime last year:

Wilson ranked third on this list despite missing a bunch of time with a finger injury he suffered.

This guy is truly remarkable when it comes to pushing the ball downfield vertically, and that’s not the only thing he does well, obviously.

Wilson is the total package at the position, but a lot of fans around the AFC West and maybe even some in Broncos Country seem to be underselling the type of impact he’s about to make in orange and blue.

Wilson’s ball placement to every level of the field is outrageously good. He is not only among the best in the league when it comes to pushing the ball downfield vertically, but he’s also one of the best at completing low-probability passes.

The long ball has been missing from the Denver Broncos’ offense for most of the last decade. With all due respect to even the best Peyton Manning offenses, Manning’s game was not necessarily about launching the ball 60 yards downfield.

Not that launching the ball 60 yards downfield is the only measure of success, but in the Mile High air, that kind of play had become a staple with John Elway and guys like Jake Plummer and even Jay Cutler at the quarterback position.

Is there anything more satisfying than an NFL Films look at a perfectly executed play-action bootleg in Mile High where the ball is launched 50-60 yards downfield to a wide-open receiver?

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The Denver Broncos have been sorely missing a vertical element to the offense and with Russell Wilson, it is back in a big way.