SI.com’s Peter King attended Seahawks training camp on Sunday and tweeted that rookie QB Russell Wilson is very much in the race to be the team’s starting quarterback in Week 1.

"Seahawk thoughts 4: Sidney Rice tells me he's aiming to be healthy wk 1 ... QB race could go any of 3 ways. Russell Wilson absolutely in it."

Because of his accuracy and the ability to get the ball out of his hand on time, Wilson has drawn comparisons to Saints QB Drew Brees. While Tavaris Jackson is in the mix to start as well, it would appear as though Wilson is battling Matt Flynn, who signed a three-year, $19.5 million contract with Seattle this offseason.

Tony Softli, a former personnel executive for the Panthers and Rams, suggests that Seahawks rookie QB Russell Wilson will eventually win the starting job over Matt Flynn and Tarvaris Jackson.

"I think that once he picks up this offense he'll be ahead of Flynn not only athletically but [in terms of] positional attributes as well," Softli said on the air with ESPN's John Clayton. "I like what Flynn brings to the table because he does have some experience, and I think it's going to be a good competition between the two, but when it's all said and done I think Wilson will be the guy."

Seahawks HC Pete Carroll said that the QB some league observers believe could be released at the end of training camp remains a nose ahead of the rest by virtue of his experience – incumbent starter Tarvaris Jackson.

Carroll points to the fact that Jackson showed toughness finishing 7-7 as Seattle’s starter last season while playing with a partially torn pectoral muscle – including a 5-3 record in the final eight games of year – as the reason he’s first man up with the starters.

Matt Flynn and Russell Wilson will continue to compete for the starting job.

With 2011 starting QB Tarvaris Jackson, free-agent addition Matt Flynn and third-round rookie Russell Wilson getting an equal number of reps in early Seahawks offseason workouts, team sources tell us it’s way too early to know if anybody might have a leg up in the team’s QB competition. In the first OTA open to the media, though, Flynn did the best job, by far, of the three in terms of withstanding pressure and avoiding turnovers.

We expect Flynn to win the job. Stay tuned.

Seattle rookie Russell Wilson will be part of the competition to become Seattle's starting quarterback this fall, coach Pete Carroll said Sunday as the team concluded a three-day minicamp for rookies.
"He showed us enough," Carroll said. "He's in the competition."

Wilson was the team's third-round pick, and he will join a competition that already included free-agent addition Matt Flynn and incumbent starter Tarvaris Jackson.

Wilson was very impressive on Friday when the Seahawks began the minicamp, taking every repetition during the 11-on-11 drills. He was intercepted on several deep passes during Saturday's practice, but after concluding the workouts on Sunday, Carroll raved about his readiness.

"He did an excellent job of demonstrating that he prepared for this," Carroll said.

The coach estimated Wilson was on the field for 500 snaps all told and threw close to 400 passes. Carroll estimated there was only one time he stumbled on the verbiage of calling a play, demonstrating Wilson's familiarity with a West Coast offense. Wilson ran that system first at North Carolina State and later at Wisconsin.