As all eyes focus on Robert Griffin III during training camp practices, Kirk Cousins and Colt McCoy are quietly engaging in a battle for the team’s main backup quarterback role.
Each day, one quarterback takes all the reps with the second-team while the other takes them with the third-team. The next practice session, they’ve switched.
It’s all part of a plan laid out by head coach Jay Gruden.
“I just take advantage of the reps that I get, and I feel like I’m having a pretty good camp so far,” said McCoy, the eldest member of a young quarterbacks group at just 28 years old.