Seattle Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wilson is a Super Bowl champion and seven-time Pro-Bowler, but one former NFL player is calling the 31-year-old starting signal-caller “underrated.”

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Per in Brandon Robinson in Heavy.com, via Seahawks Wire:

“At the end of the day, a team that has a quarterback who interestingly never gotten a MVP vote, but is always in the MVP conversation; I mean, it’s baffling the disrespect that Russell Wilson gets,” [retired New York Giants running back Tiki] Barber said. “Maybe the most underrated quarterback in the NFL these days. But a team that has a Russell Wilson – who is always going to find a way to create and make plays happen, has a chance in the NFL.”

Barber, 45, retired from the NFL as a lifelong Giants running back in 2006 and a three-time Pro-Bowl rusher. Wilson made his first All-Pro team with the Seahawks this past season—on the All-Pro Second Team. Wilson, who was a leading MVP candidate for much of the regular season in 2019 until Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson took over the conversation, has never earned first-team All-Pro honors in his eight-year professional career.

Wilson led the Seahawks under center to their first Super Bowl victory in franchise history in just his second NFL season, in 2013-14, later winning the conference again the next season but falling to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX. Wilson doesn't have an MVP trophy on his mantle, but he has been known as one of the best big-game gunslingers in the league in his eight-year career.

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