After saying for the several last months that Robert Griffin III was his starting quarterback, Redskins head coach Jay Gruden announced on Monday that Kirk Cousins will take that role heading into the regular season.Gruden added that Cousins will remain the starter, intimating that Griffin could not re-take the position himself in the future.
That, days after saying the same thing about Griffin.
"Kirk Cousins will be the starter for 2015 moving forward," Gruden said. "It's Kirk's team."
Gruden said Griffin lost his job not because of injury, but because of the improvement he says Cousins had in his performance in training camp and the preseason. Griffin was concussed, the team said, in last Thursday's game against Detroit, but until then had shown little improvement in the areas coaches said he had to show.
He added that Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has not prevented football people in the organization from moving away from Robert Griffin, as was previously reported, and that starting Cousins is a move that his owner supported.
"Mr. Snyder has been nothing but supportive of this football team," Gruden said. "All Mr. Snyder wants to do is win."
Gruden said that Griffin is not currently being shopped for a trade and is not going to be released, though also said that he is yet to decide if he will be the second- or third-string quarterback, ahead of or behind Colt McCoy.
Kirk Cousins said he doesn't view his new job so much as the ending of some process, but the beginning of another one.
"It doesn't feel like a finish line by any means, it feels like the work is still ahead of us," Cousins said. "I go ou t and try to prove myself every time I'm out there."
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