Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson cheered on his alma mater NC State during the Wolfpack’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament second-round game in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
As the 2022 NFL season approaches, here’s a look at where former NC State players rank in Career NFL Rushing Statistical Categories. No disrespect to Russell Wilson, but the fact that he has the NFL rushing yards in school history, shows that the Wolfpack don’t have a history of putting out productive NFL Running Backs.
NC State has had 7 former Quarterbacks go on to start games in the NFL. Heading into the 2022 NFL season, Russell Wilson and Jacoby Brissett are the only two former Wolfpackers currently on NFL rosters.
When the news hit that Wilson would be out with a broken finger, it was shocking. Then you realized that the former Wolfpack QB had amassed a 149 game regular season playing streak.