The only thing keeping quarterback Robert Griffin III a member of the Washington Redskins is owner Daniel Snyder, according to reports.Football people ranging from front office managers to position coaches have apparently reiterated their interest in moving on from Griffin's quarterbacking services due to the lack of progress they think he has made in his three years under center for the club.
But those repeated requests and pleas have fallen on Snyder's deaf ears.
ESPN reported that the Redskins had been fielding trade offers recently, but to no avail. Which is hardly surprising. Griffin has a guaranteed salary of $3.3 million this season and would be owed $16.1 million next season if he were injured, as per the terms of the fifth-year option the team awarded him with this offseason.
Griffin and injury being two frequent companions in the last three seasons, Washington could find themselves on the hook to pay a fortune to a man who, should that case arise once again, couldn't take a single snap.
That number, and the possibility of it having to be paid, is the lynchpin keeping other teams from listening to those reported offers.
Head coach Jay Gruden has said this entire offseason and exhibition campaign that he would side with Griffin as the primary starter going into the season, but his average performance in camp and the below-average effort he has fielded during his limited playing time already in two games, by those close to the situation, have him re-thinking that plan.
He has already had to publicly refute a report that the team has decided to start Kirk Cousins over Griffin in their first regular season game.
Also, first-year general manager Scot McCloughan has no particular loyalty to Griffin, either. As far as those on the football end are concerned, Cousins and Colt McCoy give the team the superior chance to come out of this season with a decent showing.
The only one around the franchise, it seems, who doesn't think that is the man who owns it.
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