I wouldn't be surprised if there was some truth to this, but the author of the article is desperately trying to paint a narrative where race, politics and religion played a part in the decision to let wilson have the ball instead of lynch. Otherwise he would have simply said wilson got the ball b/c hes their guy and lynch is on his way out. Instead we got gems like these:
Russell Wilson is your young clean-cut God-fearing media-perfect quarterback... He’s Derek Jeter with a Bible, someone who comes across like he has never spoken out of turn in his entire life.
Marshawn Lynch is… Marshawn Lynch, and if you haven’t figured out what that means after the past two weeks, then you haven’t been paying attention.
the politics of race, respectability, public relations... all played into this.
Then he goes on to try and validate this theory by providing a dubious quote from an unnamed player and associating it not with specifically the fact that wilson was chosen to handle the ball instead of lynch but implying thta it was b/c of the reasons above that he was chosen. Hack journalism at its finest.
EDIT: I also think its ludicrous to mention race at all... its not as if wilson is white, but maybe to the idiot writing this piece, hes just not black enough? who knows... just dumb.