RENTON, Wash. — In typical Russell Wilson fashion, the Seattle Seahawks’ third-year quarterback dismissed the notion of a divided locker room in the wake of last week’s shocking trade of dynamic wide receiver Percy Harvin to the New York Jets.

A report by Mike Freeman of the Bleacher Report this week indicated there is a sentiment among some in the Seahawks locker room that Wilson isn’t “black enough” and that some teammates view him as tied too closely to the front office.

“I don’t watch ESPN, I don’t really read any of (your) articles,” Wilson told reporters after Thursday’s practice. “No offense, I stay away from it all. I think that’s a major part of it for me because I have complete confidence in who I am, complete confidence in the person that I’m striving to be every day and the person that I’m working to be.

“I’m an educated individual that wants to continue to learn and continue to get better at the game of football but also in life so that’s where my focus is every day when I wake up. I don’t pay attention to the outside stuff. It will never make me waiver in terms of my confidence, so that’s where I am on that.”

Former Seahawks fullback Michael Robinson acknowledged this week that he broke up a fight between Harvin and former Seattle wide receiver Golden Tate the day before the Super Bowl in February, and there have been multiple reports that Harvin and Wilson nearly came to blows earlier this season.

However, Wilson claims he and Harvin had no issues on or off the field.

“We had a lot of similarities probably, if anything,” Wilson said. “We’re guys that want to compete at the highest level, want to win every single time we step on the field, want the ball in our hands to make the big play and everything.

“I’m not sure why the media tries to blow everything out of proportion. It is part of it I guess. You have to deal with it but you also ignore it too. Like I always tell you guys, ignore the noise.”

To hear Wilson describe it, he played no role in Harvin being shipped out of town.

“That’s the front office side – I don’t know much about it to be honest with you,” Wilson said. “He’s a great football player. For whatever reason, it didn’t work here, but I know that he’ll do a great job.”

The Seahawks have quickly gone from a team of overachievers who dismantled Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl to a dysfunctional locker room on the verge of a mutiny against its quarterback in the span of eight months – if one is to believe the media. But that “corporate” image Wilson is reported to have that rubs teammates the wrong way continues to hold strong as he attempts to lead the Seahawks out of a two-game losing streak that has the defending champions sitting third in their own division entering Sunday’s game at the Carolina Panthers.

“There’s no division in our locker room. There’s none at all,” Wilson insisted. “If anything, I think we’ve continued to build, continued to grow. I truly believe that. I think that the guys that we have in the locker room, the guys that believe that we can still go 1 and 0 and still be a championship team; those are the guys that we have sitting in this room every day.

“Every morning when we wake up, we’re looking for one common goal and that’s to win football games.”

One thing is clear: Wilson is confident in himself, and he’s not about to alter his personality to please anyone.

“My parents really instilled that in me, just to be confident in the man that I am and the player that I am,” he said. “I’ve had a lot of experience. I have gone through a lot of ups and downs in my life. I’ve seen a lot of good things, I’ve seen a lot of bad but I’ve also had a lot of great things happen in my life too because I’ve always persevered. I think that’s something that I try to keep my focus on.