Russell Wilson Breaks Silence on Potential NFL Punishment for Giants

Earlier this week New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson revealed he suffered a torn hamstring ahead of a Week 2 contest and played through the injury before being benched.

“I’m not blinking,” Wilson said.” I know what I’m capable of. I think I showed that in Dallas, and I want to be able to do that again. You know, and just be ready to rock and roll, and be as healthy as possible and be ready to play ball. You know, I played that [Week 2] game, you know, I tore my hamstring on Friday in practice — the last play of practice. And I had a grade two [tear]. I couldn’t tell anybody.

“I had to go and play on it just because I knew the circumstance, I had to play on it, no matter what. I actually ended up going to the Dallas Mavericks’ facility, training. And, you know, kept it quiet, just trying to get treatment on it and just knowing that I probably couldn’t run from the goal line to the 10-yard line if I wanted to, but I feel like, you know, I got to play this game.”

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Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk suggested the Giants could be in trouble following Wilson’s comments.

“Someone had to know. He went to the Mavericks’ training facility for treatment. Someone there knew. The league will want to know whether anyone from the Giants knew,” Florio wrote. “Although the incident happened before the latest NBA gambling scandal highlighted the perils of inside information, the league will have no choice but to investigate, to make the full results of the investigation public, and to issue punishment if warranted.”

Wilson saw Florio’s column and responded with a quote tweet on social media.

“Not the @Giants fault! they didn’t know bc I didn’t want to tell anyone bc of the circumstances. I just had to play through it to try and go ball that day! Thought we were going to Win that wild crazy game!” he said.