Excerpt from Article by Dave Sheinin and Liz Clarke
With Robert Griffin III, it was always about more than just football. He wasn’t going to be merely a quarterback back when he arrived in Washington in 2012. He was destined to be the savior of the Redskins, the future face of the National Football League, a symbol of hope and pride for African Americans in this city and beyond. And for a while, about one season’s worth of games, he was all of those things.
Some two years later, a time span that somehow feels both impossibly short and unimaginably long, the RGIII era appears to be over in Washington. Late Tuesday night, reports emerged that Jay Gruden, the Redskins’ rookie head coach, planned to bench Griffin for Sunday’s game against Indianapolis, a move Gruden confirmed Wednesday.
Although the team has made no pronouncement about Griffin’s status for the rest of the season and Gruden went to great lengths to say the Redskins have not given up on him, people within the organization said it’s highly unlikely Griffin will return next season. Around the league, the decision — sitting Griffin, 24, in favor of 28-year-old journeyman Colt McCoy — was seen as a stunning and monumental move from which there is almost certainly no turning back.
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