Sam Darnold saw 23x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Samuel Richard Darnold is an American professional football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans and was selected third overall in the 2018 NFL draft by the New York Jets, where he spent his first three seasons. After injuries and inconsistent play, Darnold was traded to the Carolina Panthers, alternating as a starter and backup for two seasons, and spent one season as a backup with the San Francisco 49ers.

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Where editors were working

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

• 2026 season

What changed that day

The article grew by 640 characters that day. The largest single addition was 308 characters to 2026 season. 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.