Pierre Garcon's thoughts on RG3, Kirk Cousins

If there is anyone who can attest to what Robert Griffin III can and cannot do based purely on experience on and off the field, it's Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon.

His first season with the club was Griffin's rookie year, and he had caught passes from him (and others) in good times and bad. 

Based on that time, Garcon still thinks Griffin can be a playmaker "on any team he goes."

"You know, football is all about learning and advancing," Garcon said. "We all come into the league, we're excited, we play well, and then the second year or third year, people start to catch onto you. You have to find other ways to be better and continue to stay better, and keep working hard on what got you there."

The NFL's receptions leader in 2013, Garcon said much of the success or failure of any football player is a combination of those around you and that extra work he puts in himself when no one is watching.

"Sometimes, we all need help coaching, we all need personal help or mental help," he said. "It's all finding what makes you better. And most of the time it's actually film study and, you know, just continue to have that hustle mentality, like [tailback] Alfred Morris does. He definitely can be a great player in this league. But Robert has been a great player himself, already. So he'll definitely be a great player on any team that he goes to and help them out."

Words like that only help to fuel the speculation outside Redskins Park that Griffin's days with the franchise are, indeed, at an end, and that it's only a matter of time when it happens.

Even with Griffin's career in Washington seemingly at an unhappy finish, though, Garcon thinks the future of the franchise would be in good hands.

"Kirk is a very enthusiastic guy," he told SiriusXM NFL Radio. "He commands the huddle, he has a lot of faith in us, that that we can help him do well. He is a natural-born leader, he's definitely been planning for that for a long time. You can tell from what kind of person he is that he's a leader, he's been doing it for a long time and he's excited about the opportunity."

Garcon said he and his teammates on the offensive side of the ball have an obligation to repay that faith.

"We definitely want to keep him excited and never want to, you know, have him lose that faith in himself," he said. "He's definitely ready and eager to get the season started to prove to everybody what he can do."