The full trade compensation:
-- Eagles get QB Kenny Pickett and the Steelers original 4th round pick (120 overall) in 2024.
-- Steelers get Eagles 3rd round comp pick (98 overall) and the Eagles highest two 7th round draft picks in 2025.

Related Players: Russell Wilson

This clears the runway for Russell Wilson to take over the starting role throughout the offseason. Pickett will be in pole position to backup Jalen Hurts.

Nine-time Pro-Bowl QB and former Super-Bowl champ Russell Wilson plans to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers, per league sources. Wilson will sign a team-friendly, one-year deal in which the Broncos will wind up paying $38 million of his salary while Wilson wears the black and yellow.

Related Players: Kenny Pickett

The new pairing of Wilson and OC Arthur Smith is a clear upgrade on the last two seasons of Matt Canada/Kenny Pickett/Mason Rudolph. Though Wilson himself is unlikely to be a weekly starter in typical 1QB leagues, Diontae Johnson, George Pickens, and even Pat Freiermuth should all get a tick upwards.

Smith should form a gameplan that will include play action and middle-of-the-field targets that were missing from the offense in 2023.

The Broncos are strongly considering having QB Russell Wilson sit for the final two games, preserving financial flexibility for the offseason.

Wilson has $37M in 2025 salary that vests in March of 2024, and if he suffered a serious injury, it would complicate matters.

Related Players: Jarrett Stidham

Well this is quite the bombshell. The Broncos have a very good fantasy matchup coming up this weekend, as Wilson was in-line for a face-off against a pedestrian Chargers defense. Stidham offers a decent top-18 option, if he were to get the nod. We'll keep an eye on this story for the rest of the week.

Sean Payton pointing to Jarrett Stidham being an "important signing" AND saying the team believes he can become an NFL starting QB.

Related Players: Russell Wilson

It seems like Payton is already planting seeds in case Russell Wilson duplicates his 2022 performance. It's worth keeping an eye on, and Stidham should be on Dynasty Superflex rosters.

The contract that GM George Paton gave to Russell Wilson in late August makes the cap consequences for cutting him after the first year of the new deal untenable. Without a post-June 1 designation, the Broncos would take a $107 million cap charge by cutting Wilson this year. With a post-June 1 designation, the Broncos would carry $22 million in Wilson’s name this year, and $85 million in 2024.

Obviously the best-case would be to fix the Wilson and the offense. But getting rid of Wilson gets a little easier after the 2023 season. The story went on to say: a post-June 1 designation in 2024 would result in a $35.4 million cap charge that year, with $49.6 million carried over to 2025. Here’s another reason to do it in early 2024. If Wilson is on the roster on the fifth day of the 2024 league year, $37 million in 2025 salary becomes fully guaranteed. Wilson already has received $57 million for 2022. He has another $67 million in fully-guaranteed payments over the next two years. A trade would result in a lower cap charge, by foisting the remaining guarantees onto a new team. But who in their right mind would take on Wilson at $67 million over two years, and $104 million over three.

Russell Wilson is full go this week, per Hackett

While it's probably too little, too late for Wilson owners this year, he was coming off his best game before getting hurt in Week 13 with a concussion. He had 247 yards, 57 rushing yards and three TD passes. In five games between Week 8-13, he had three TD passes total. Wilson will be tough to trust in playoff matchups this week if you need to play him, though, even coming off his best game.

Broncos ruled out Russell Wilson for Sunday’s game.

Related Players: Brett Rypien

No matter your feelings on Wilson or the Broncos in general, there is no denying that the offense has been a disaster over the course of the first season of their marriage. Last week's 28-34 loss to the Chiefs was the first time this season that the team had scored more than 23 points. Brett Rypien is absolutely a stay-away this week but he should be able to support a WR2/3 game out of Jerry Jeudy.

Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson, who left Sunday’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs with a concussion early in the fourth quarter, has advanced enough in the NFL’s concussion protocol to participate some in Wednesday’s practice.

The story went on to say Wilson did not participate in team drills so he was formally listed on the team’s injury/practice report as DNP, but he was in uniform and his helmet for stretching and individual drills when he threw to receivers during the initial practice periods. He appears to have reached the third phase of the league's concussion protocol that limits players to 30 minutes of “football-specific exercise.’’

Broncos QB Russell Wilson is being evaluated for a possible concussion.

Brett Rypien is in at quarterback after Wilson’s head hit very hard off the turf. A picture was also caught of quite a bit of swelling on his forehead. The Broncos are home next Sunday against the Cardinals.