Marc Wilson (American football)

Wilson was born in Bremerton, Washington. Raised in the greater Seattle area, he attended Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington.

Wilson received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brigham Young University in 1980. In 1996 Marc received an executive MBA from the University of Washington.

Wilson attended Brigham Young University, where he played for the BYU Cougars football team from 1976 to 1979, and was one of the first in BYU's celebrated line of quarterbacks. Cougars coach LaVell Edwards operated a passing-oriented offense that allowed his quarterbacks to throw the ball almost every single down. Thus, Wilson was able to pile up huge passing numbers in an era when most teams mainly focused on running the ball.

Marc first got a chance to start in the fifth game of the 1977 season, replacing All-American Gifford Nielsen, who had gone down after four contests with an injury. During that 1977 season, his sophomore year, he threw for seven touchdown passes in one game against Colorado State University, his first start. After that, he started most of BYU's games over the next two-and-a-half seasons, racking up a 22-4 record, though he did yield a few starts to budding star Jim McMahon. In 1979, he threw 250 completions for 3,720 yards and 29 touchdown passes, becoming the school's first consensus All-American. Highlights of his 1979 season included leading the team to an undefeated regular season and a berth in the Holiday Bowl, where he shared the MVP trophy with Indiana University cornerback Tim Wilbur in BYU's 38-37 loss. He finished fourth in the nation in passing efficiency, third in the Heisman voting, and was named the Senior Bowl MVP.[1] Wilson's success paved the way for McMahon, Steve Young, Robbie Bosco, Ty Detmer, and other BYU quarterbacks, all of whom had similar performances in Edwards' system.

Wilson was selected in the first round of the 1980 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. As a rookie, he was a backup to Jim Plunkett on the Raiders' 1980 championship team which won Super Bowl XV against the Philadelphia Eagles. In 1981 Marc started 9 games for the Raiders following a season ending injury to Jim Plunkett. In 1982 Marc was the backup to Jim Plunkett during a strike shortened NFL season consisting of only 9 games. In 1983 Wilson became the starting QB for the Raiders mid-season. 2 games later Marc suffered a broken shoulder in Kansas City and missed the remainder of the regular season. The 1983 Raiders went on to win Super Bowl XVIII against the Washington Redskins. In 1984 Marc again became the starting QB. Wilson played out the 1984 season with a broken thumb suffered in a loss to the Chicago Bears during the 10th game of the year. In 1985 Marc, as the team’s starting QB, won 11 games and captured the AFC West title. In Marc’s only playoff game as a starting QB in the NFL, the Raiders were beaten by the New England Patriots. In 1986 Marc started 8 games for the Raiders, going 5-3 as the starter. In 1987, a player’s strike year in the NFL, Marc was 2-5 as a starter. Following the 1987 season Wilson's tenure with the Raiders came to an end. After leaving the Raiders Marc signed with the Green Bay Packers. Marc was released by the Green Bay Packers following training camp in 1988. In 1989 Wilson signed with the New England Patriots where he played 2 years. Following the 1990 season Marc retired from the NFL.

Injuries are a part of life for all NFL players. During his 8 years with the Raiders Wilson did not play during 2 of the seasons. In the remaining 6 seasons in which he played as a starting QB, Wilson played out 2 years with a broken thumb, 2 seasons with severe injuries to his shoulder requiring 3 surgeries, and 2 years with a damaged knee that required 2 surgeries. Wilson never completed a season with the Raiders without being injured. Despite the injuries Wilson finished his career with the Raiders as the 6th leading all time passer, and the 4th winningest QB (for QB’s in franchise history with at least 50 starts) with a winning percentage of 62%.

Wilson was fortunate to be introduced to Jim Howton shortly after retiring from the NFL. Howton had developed real estate throughout the greater Seattle area for many years. Primarily a single family plat developer Howton took Wilson in as a partner of Projects N.W., Inc. and taught Marc the real estate development business. During their time together Howton and Wilson developed and sold over 2,000 single family lots to the merchant builders in the greater Seattle marketplace. In time Wilson started his own real estate development company, named Wilson Pacific Partners. As the principal of Wilson Pacific Partners Marc developed 3 neighborhood grocery anchored shopping centers, together with several other national credit tenant retail properties. To coincide with his retail development activities, Marc also started Wilson Management. Wilson Management managed all of his retail projects, as well as over 30 properties in the Seattle area as a 3rd party property manager. After over 20 years working in real estate Wilson retired. However, retirement for Wilson didn’t last even 1 year. Wilson ended his retirement to start Quintessential Biosciences (Q Sciences) in 2012.

Marc Wilson's career in real estate has resulted in several legal disputes and at least one bankruptcy. In 2011, Marc Wilson and his wife voluntarily filed and entered into Chapter 7 bankruptcy after unsuccessfully attempting to rent several properties throughout Seattle. [3] In March 2021, King County Superior Court appointed a receiver over Asana Homes, LLC, one of several LLCs which Marc Wilson uses to operate his failed property ventures. This occurred after Marc Wilson defaulted on over $5 million of debt issued for the construction of townhomes in Seattle and failed to pay several contractors involved in construction of the townhomes. [4] A separate LLC of Marc Wilson’s, Watershed Holdings, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2021, listing 20 claims against the company from creditors and contractors.[5]

Wilson's latest venture, Q Sciences, has been referred to the Utah Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission for possible enforcement action after failing to adequately respond to the DSSRC’s concern about certain earnings and health-related product performance claims made by the company. At issue are claims disseminated by salesforce members on social media that Q Science’s products can protect against serious health conditions, including COVID-19. [6]

• List of NCAA major college football yearly passing leaders
• List of NCAA major college football yearly total offense leaders

• Marc Wilson at the College Football Hall of Fame
• Career statistics and player information from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference