Robert Griffin III had two teams vying for him ahead of the the 2012 NFL draft. St. Louis held the No. 2 pick (Andrew Luck was a lock to the Colts with the first selection), and both of these teams were backing up bounty-filled vans to the Rams’ offices, hoping to trade for the right to take RG3. One team was Washington, and the other was Cleveland.
If I told you that in four years since being drafted, Griffin had flashed signs of brilliance, suffered a debilitating knee injury, trudged through two mediocre seasons and then had been demoted in favor of a guy who entered last season with more picks than TDs, relegating to a season in which he didn’t take a snap, you’d have every reason to assume that he had been drafted by the second team.