Russell Wilson was exchanged Wednesday.
Actually no, not from the Seattle Seahawks. It was the Texas Rangers, rather, who asked him to leave for good.
In one of the more odd stories you'll catch wind of a whiz in the NFL, Wilson was exchanged from the Rangers to the New York Yankees for future contemplations, ESPN's Jerry Crasnick revealed.
In case you're new, Wilson really has a to some degree respectable baseball vocation. In 2007, out of secondary school, he was drafted in the 41st round by the Baltimore Orioles. He turned that down to go to N.C. State. In 2010, he was drafted in the fourth round by the Colorado Rockies, and really burned through two seasons in their ranch framework before picking to go the football course.
In 2013, the Texas Rangers chose Wilson in the Rule 5 Draft, for the most part to have Wilson appear to spring preparing for a bit, talk with the group and increase some great exposure for the association.
While the Yankees pulled the trigger to procure him Wednesday, fear not Seahawks fans. The arrangement, at any rate for the time being, seems, by all accounts, to be for New York to repeat those same strategies with the previous Super Bowl MVP.
"While football is my obsession and my occupation, baseball remains an immense piece of where I originated from and my identity today," Wilson said in an announcement. "I've adapted such a great amount on the baseball field that means my amusement physically and rationally playing quarterback in the NFL. I thank the Rangers and their awesome fans for influencing me to feel at home and a piece of the family! While I grasp the opportunity to be a New York Yankee, I will everlastingly be thankful to have been a piece of a world class association like the Texas Rangers."