Los Angeles Rams: Signing Robert Griffin III Would Be Ultimate Irony

Looking back four years, it’s not difficult to determine who got the best of the Robert Griffin III blockbuster trade.  Even though the Los Angeles Rams (then St. Louis Rams) collected a bounty of draft picks including two future 1^st rounders and a 2^nd rounder in the 2012 draft, the Washington Redskins achieved more with their investment.  Griffin got them to the playoffs, won Rookie of the Year and went to a Pro Bowl that season.  The Rams still haven’t reached the postseason since 2004.

Still, it doesn’t erase the disappointment fans in Washington have over what followed.  RGIII tore his ACL, and began a long, steady decline from his game-breaking form to a hollow shell of a quarterback that finally saw him replaced by Kirk Cousins, who was taken in the 4^th round of the same draft he was.  Now Griffin is expected to receive his release from the Redskins, making him a free agent for the first.  He hopes to find a new team to latch on with and rebuild his reputation.

In the ultimate twist of irony, one of the teams favored to pursue him is the Los Angeles Rams as Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk explains.

"“Four years ago, the Rams picked up three first-round picks and a second-round pick in exchange for the privilege of drafting quarterback Robert Griffin III. And the Rams repeatedly reminded Washington of the move, from selecting the players obtained through the trade as captains for a game against Griffin’s team to using the picks as a draft-room rallying cry.“It made too much sense for us to go ahead and recognize the guys that probably wouldn’t be here had it not been for the trade,” Fisher said in December 2014, explaining his coin-toss emissaries following a game against Washington. “We want to do that before the game. It was a memory that will last them for a lifetime. It was a good idea. I’ve sent other people out for different reasons as well.”Now that Griffin’s time in Washington is coming to an end (unless they want to pay him more than $16 million fully guaranteed for 2016), the prospect looms of the Rams completing the grift by signing Griffin.The Rams would need to put Griffin through the paces of a full-blown workout before signing him, to ensure he still can move and cut and throw. But it’s a low bar to surpass the skill sets of Nick Foles and Case Keenum, and if no one else is offering Griffin starter money, it could be easy to get Griffin.”"

What an incredible twist of fate it would be.  The quarterback the Rams thought wasn’t good enough four years ago comes in at the eleventh hour and maybe, just maybe saves all their jobs and his own career in the process.  Sometimes the NFL can be an incredible setting for Hollywood-level scripts.