Income taxes meet Russell Wilson: You both have set an April 15 deadline.

Wilson told the Seahawks he wants a new contract worked out by April 15 — when the team begins voluntary offseason workouts and your taxes are due to be filed — according to The Seattle Times.

Is it a step toward eliminating a season-long distraction for the Seahawks? Or a step out of town, and possibly to the opposite coast where he could be the answer to the Giants’ half-hearted, complicated search for Eli Manning’s successor?

The 30-year-old Wilson is due a $17 million salary and will count for $25.2 million against the cap in 2019, the final year on his four-year, $87 million contract.

If no extension is reached, Wilson could become an unrestricted free agent. But the Seahawks could stop that possibility by franchise tagging Wilson on one-year deals worth more than $25 million each in 2020 and 2021.

Franchise tags often lead to holdouts and sometimes to messy divorces.

But it’s hard to imagine the Seahawks letting their two-time Super Bowl quarterback (one win, one loss) walk out the door. The Super Bowl win was over the Broncos at MetLife Stadium.

Even Wilson doesn’t see it.

“I’m not sure if the Seahawks are going to let me get away,” Wilson said on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. “I love Seattle. Seattle is a special place.”

Fox Sports’ Colin Cowherd spread a rumor he heard in the entertainment world that Wilson’s wife, singer and model Ciara, wants to live in New York for her career. Husband and wife both are represented by mega Creative Artists Agency.

Wilson and his wife were on hand at the NFL Annual Meeting in Phoenix last week to speak to the wives of other NFL personnel in attendance.

But Wilson is a minor-league baseball player in the Yankees organization, after a trade from the Rangers. He showed up at spring training but it is unlikely he will ever play professional baseball given how well his NFL career is going.

“I like New York. I love the Yankees," Wilson said. "Obviously, New York is a special city. … We love New York. But Seattle’s home for us. We’ve been there for a long time.”

Wilson could surpass Packers’ Aaron Rodgers as the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL with his next contract. Rodgers’ average salary is $33.5 million.

The Giants are paying Manning $12 million in salary plus $11.2 million in bonuses in 2019, the final year of his contract.

Their search for his replacement could end in a trade for Josh Rosen of the Cardinals or the drafting of a quarterback for the third straight year or it could be kicked into 2020.

The last two major quarterbacks to change teams in free agency were Kirk Cousins, who signed a fully guaranteed three-year, $84 million contract with the Vikings, and Nick Foles who signed a four-year, $88 million contract with the Jaguars.

Even the Super Bowl MVP Foles is not as accomplished as the five-time Pro Bowler Wilson.

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