The Kansas City Chiefs got their first win of the 2025 season, doing so against the New York Giants on the road in primetime. Giants quarterback Russell Wilson was abysmal in the game, throwing two terrible picks and not giving that offense any chance to win the game.
Wilson's performance was so bad that Brian Daboll and the Giants have officially decided to end the Russell Wilson experiment at quarterback and hand the keys of the car to their first-round rookie, Jaxson Dart, who will make his first start against the 3-0 Chargers in Week 4, according to Adam Schefter.
Chiefs fans got to briefly watch Dart during their Week 3 match-up with the rookie quarterback carrying the ball once for three yards but that was it for the Ole Miss product. He's now going to be the starting signal-caller for the New York Giants and Wilson's time as the starter is up, thanks to the Chiefs defense making him look putrid.
Chiefs defense effectively ended Russell Wilson's NFL career
It wasn't always this bad for Wilson, who was a third-round pick by the Seahawks in 2012 and immediately showed that he could be a franchise quarterback. In just his second year in the league, Wilson helped lead Seattle to its first-ever Super Bowl win and he came oh so close to winning a second Super Bowl one year later but, as we know, he threw the game-sealing interception against the Patriots.
After a decade in Seattle, Wilson was traded to the Broncos in the 2022 offseason in what looked to be a move that could shift things in the AFC West. That obviously didn't happen, as Wilson was awful in Denver. He was so bad that Sean Payton opted to take the massive cap hit and cut Wilson, who then signed with the Steelers for the 2024 season.
While Wilson had a crazy good game against the Cowboys in Week 2, we've seen that after just three weeks in the season how bad the Cowboys defense is so that game doesn't seem as eye-popping now. Wilson is more like the version we've seen in Weeks 1 against the Commanders and 3 against the Chiefs than the Week 2 Russell Wilson.
It's been pretty clear that Wilson isn't the same quarterback he once was in his prime and that's just how it goes. The Chiefs might have made him look horrible in the 22-9 final but Wilson will still make the Hall of Fame and mostly be remembered for what he did in his prime.
Unless Wilson is willing to take a backup quarterback job, however, his time in the league is likely finished. He's no longer starting-caliber and the Chiefs just helped the Giants come to that conclusion much sooner.