Drew Lock saw 457x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Paul Andrew Lock is an American professional football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers and was selected by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2019 NFL draft. Lock has also played for the New York Giants. He was the backup quarterback for the Seahawks in their Super Bowl LX victory.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 17 edits to this article on 2026-09-10, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Regular season
• 2026
• Career statistics
• Seattle Seahawks (second stint)

What changed that day

The article grew by 6,166 characters that day. The largest single addition was 5,853 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-10 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.