Russell Wilson's former North Carolina State teammate Kalani Heppe is calling bullshit on a majority of the Seahawks quarterback's commencement speech <at the University of Wisconsin. Over the weekend, Wilson revealed his former N.C. State head coach Tom O'Brien told him that he was "never going to play" in the NFL before he transferred to Wisconsin. According to Heppe, 80 percent of what the Seattle Seahawks star quarterback said in his speech "didn't even happen."
Heppe also changed his Twitter profile picture to a screenshot of an SB Nation article titled "Russell Wilson Is Full of Crap" by Steven Muma.
The article unpacks a number of instances regarding Wilson's time with the Wolfpack baseball team.
Wilson carelessly vomits his revisionism to fit his mundane narrative about hitting a walk-off home run against Cal Irvine his junior year. He did hit that home run. Basically everything else about the circumstances of that day and his career with the baseball team was conjured from thin air.
It was in the bottom of the 10th. But it wasn't Wilson's first at-bat of the game, it was his second. He'd subbed into the contest well before that moment.
Heppe took his attack on Wilson a step further, saying coach O'Brien should file a lawsuit over his comments.
And what does O'Brien think of Wilson's speech?
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