Russell Wilson Says NC State Coach Said He’d Never Play in the NFL

Seattle Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wilson revealed in a commencement speech at Wisconsin that a coach at North Carolina State told him he’d never be an NFL quarterback.

Here’s an excerpt from that speech, per Sheil Kapadia of ESPN.com:

The summer before my senior year of college, I’m playing minor-league baseball. I called my football coach at NC State and said, ‘Hey coach, I’d like to come back for my senior year.’ He told me I wasn’t coming back. He said, ‘Listen son, you’re never going to play in the National Football League. You’re too small. There’s no chance. You’ve got no shot. Give it up.’ Of course, I’m on this side of the phone saying, ‘So you’re telling me I’m not coming back to NC State? I won’t see the field?’ He said, ‘No son, you won’t see the field.’ Now this was everything I had worked for. And now it was completely gone. If I wanted to follow my dream I had to leave NC State. I had no idea if I would get a second chance somewhere else.

That second chance did come, however, as …

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