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A Super Bowl winning quarterback is going to spring training.
The Seattle Seahawks' Russell Wilson announced via Twitter on Thursday that he will be at the Texas Rangers' facility on March 3.
It's unclear whether Wilson will participate in drills or just talk with some players. Rangers officials said they will be in touch with Mark Rodgers, Wilson's agent, in the next few days to figure out a schedule, but it is unlikely Wilson will be in Arizona long.
The Rangers selected Wilson in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft in December, and he said at the time that he was interested in going to spring training. Rodgers said a few weeks ago that the quarterback hadn't decided what he was going to do following the Super Bowl victory. But Wilson's tweet means he's going to at least visit the Rangers.
Texas paid $12,000 to pluck Wilson from the Colorado Rockies organization with the hopes that some of the club's young players could relate to him and see what it takes to be a successful pro athlete.
"Everything you see and read about him and seeing him play on Sundays, you hear about the work ethic, the person," Rangers assistant general manager A.J. Preller said in December. "I think that's going to be a positive message for all of our players in our system, our coaches, everybody to have somebody like that around.
Source: ESPN
The Seattle Seahawks' Russell Wilson announced via Twitter on Thursday that he will be at the Texas Rangers' facility on March 3.
It's unclear whether Wilson will participate in drills or just talk with some players. Rangers officials said they will be in touch with Mark Rodgers, Wilson's agent, in the next few days to figure out a schedule, but it is unlikely Wilson will be in Arizona long.
The Rangers selected Wilson in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft in December, and he said at the time that he was interested in going to spring training. Rodgers said a few weeks ago that the quarterback hadn't decided what he was going to do following the Super Bowl victory. But Wilson's tweet means he's going to at least visit the Rangers.
Texas paid $12,000 to pluck Wilson from the Colorado Rockies organization with the hopes that some of the club's young players could relate to him and see what it takes to be a successful pro athlete.
"Everything you see and read about him and seeing him play on Sundays, you hear about the work ethic, the person," Rangers assistant general manager A.J. Preller said in December. "I think that's going to be a positive message for all of our players in our system, our coaches, everybody to have somebody like that around.
Source: ESPN
