

There have been some other great quarterbacks before me. “I don’t think it should be about how tall you are, or whatever. “I don’t think it should be about the color of your skin,” he told me. Wilson said after the game that it should just be about performance. Is any of this a big deal to the guys leading the charge? Maybe it’s good that it isn’t.


There’s a long list of names, from Willie Thrower to Marlin Briscoe to James Harris to Eldridge Dickey to Warren Moon, who saw their deserved opportunities to play the position at the NFL level denied, or - in Moon’s case - had to wait far too long for those opportunities. Part of the reason it’s never happened before is the lack of opportunities given to black quarterbacks throughout NFL history. Needless to say, this has never happened before.
