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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1032628" data-attributes="member: 18006">Sounds like two very good guesses. We're used to seeing rookies come in and pick up the playbook, the schemes, and the assignments pretty quickly, but that probably has a lot do with Gutekunst drafting a very high percentage of players from major college football porgrams, with complex offenses and high expectations of their players. Not as big a leap for someone from Georgia, Miami, or Michigan as it is for someone from Fort Valley State University, 2500 students. I wonder if the big step up in conditioning levels is also a factor.The thing that has puzzled me all season is that they seem to talk constantly about how much they love the guy, what high expectations they have of him, but they hardly ever give him any footballs to play with.  But if the reasons you suggest are the answer, that maybe even speaks more highly of him - that they're willing to basically redshirt him for a full year so as not to push him too far too fast, because they think that the investment will pay off in the end.How did he come here? I know he initially tried out with Denver, but I don't know if he was a UFDA invite or walk-on. I'm guessing that from there, he walked on in Green Bay all on his own.Edit: I just looked something up. I had competely forgotten that when Jones hurt his knee against the Chargers, they subbed Wilson in immediately, but that then he went down with a shoulder injury just a few plays later. He was on injured reserve until the first playoff game, so the entire 3 games that Jones missed in November/December (and the first game or two back, when he was on a pitch count), Wilson was not available anyway. I had totally forgotten that. That actually may go a long way toward explaining why he wasn't used more during either of the two periods when  Jones was out; when Jones was injured early in the season, maybe Wilson just wasn't ready - but would have been had he not been injured.</blockquote>

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