Zach Wilson showed off his athleticism a lot during his rookie season – especially when he ran for a 52-yard score in Week 16. But he’s more than just a scrambler.
Running back Michael Carter explained on Good Morning Football that the 6-foot-2, 214-pound quarterback is also a baller.
“He’s a freak athlete,” Carter said. “A lot of people don’t know this, but he’s a good basketball player. He can really hoop. It’s just funny knowing that he really can because looking at him, you might not know that he can hoop.”
Wilson can dunk, too, in case you were wondering.
“Dunking is an understatement,” Carter added. “He can really jam. He’s smooth.”
Wilson attributes his improvisational style of football to his basketball upbringing. Wilson was the starting point guard at Corner Canyon High School in Provo, Utah, and once thought basketball would be his main sport in college. Before the NFL draft, Wilson explained to ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit that the lessons he learned from basketball affected how he moved around the football field.
“The ability to have that twitchiness, the ability to move around in the pocket and make guys miss in small spaces… all come from basketball,” Wilson said. “The ability to just react to what somebody is giving you, I learned in basketball.”
Now we just need that highlight reel of Wilson’s dunks.
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