What do you anticipate the next steps with Russell looking like going forward?

I think when we get back and we begin this process of looking at a roster, you know, where we select.

There's so many things that go into a decision specific to the quarterback, which is significant obviously.

So it's too early at all.

I've spent a half an hour with Russ yesterday.

You know and I told him I said look know, I don't think it's going to be a long drawn-out process, but it hasn't been decided relative to what our plans are.

And, but as soon as we know something, that certainly, you know, he would be the first

to know.

Sean Payton addressing the future of quarterback Russell Wilson.

Look, they got dragged and it's funny so many of the people who were crapping on Russell

Wilson last year were fighting for

him this year because of this perception that the Broncos in some way wronged him.

The Broncos did not wrong Russell Wilson when they benched him with two games left.

And I think it's legitimate to make decisions like that, to try to keep a guarantee for injury

becoming a full guarantee because a guy's got a sprained ankle that

doesn't heal by the middle of March and then you're stuck with another 37

million dollars in fully guaranteed payment. Derek Carr got treated worse

than Russell Wilson frankly because he had a

40 million dollar guarantee pulled out from under him during a window that is

supposed to be respected where you're not supposed to cut the guy right after the

Super Bowl that's just for funding rule purposes. Wilson's is fair game. So I think the

Broncos are just being careful now. There's no way they pick up this contract.

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