I don't wanna be a jerk here, but I'm gonna play the race card. Luck "looks like a quarterback" to a lot of analysts--he looks like what we've seen as successful QBs in the league. He is tall, he is broad, he is white.
Wilson, on the other hand, is short, narrow, and brown. What is most important about him--his intelligence, his work ethic, his leadership--aren't things that show up immediately. They aren't measured by readily available metrics. And I think that's part of why he's been passed over; starting in the draft, continuing in the national conversation. He doesn't look like Manning, Brady, or even Brees. He's an outsider QB, which is why he's perfect for our outsider team.
Say I'm making too much of race? Perhaps. But I've heard twice lately in social situations that "we" need to cheer for the white quarterbacks. I really believe that for some people the position of QB is held as the last unassailable bastion of white supremacy in sports. And while I'm not outright pointing fingers (they were happy enough to consider RG3 part of the convo before he was RGknee), I can't help but wonder what the Luck/Wilson conversation would look like if that were the same.
