We have no clue if quarterback Robert Griffin III is going to be on the Washington Redskins' roster next season. Yes, new Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan exercised the club's fifth-year option on RGIII that will pay him around $16 million in 2016. But it's just as likely that the Skins will part ways with the talented yet embattled QB if he has a bad season this year.
If that happens, where would Griffin end up? In a piece based purely on hypotheticals, Grantland's Robert Mays offered up the Houston Texans as a possible landing spot.
"If we're picking the most hospitable spot for Griffin, Houston feels like the logical choice," Mays wrote. "Griffin is from Texas. There's a freaking statue of the guy three hours from Houston. Based on numbers alone, Baylor doesn't have the fan base of Texas A&M, but I'm guessing there are still enough memories of Griffin lighting those teams on fire for Houstonians to get onboard. That'll be especially true if the Hoyer-Mallett-Savage experiment goes awry and it becomes clear that the Texans' roster is a quarterback away from coasting to the playoffs. I could see Bill O'Brien as the type of coach who might already be out on Griffin entirely - he's hardly the kind of prototypical passer O'Brien's worked with in the past - but for our purposes, the appeal of the reclamation project is too much to pass up."
Again, this is entirely a made-up scenario but it's one worth considering. Redskins head coach Jay Gruden has made his dislike of Griffin's game well known and another poor season would likely cement the QB's exit from D.C. As Mays notes, Griffin is not the type of traditional signal-caller O'Brien usually targets. But could RGIII be better than what the Texans have right now? Only time will tell.
