Kirk Cousins: RG3 Injury Proves Redskins Made Smart Choice Drafting 2 QBs

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Days after the 2012 NFL plan had completed, the pedagogue Redskins were universally praised for craft Baylor backwards parliamentarian Griffin threesome at No. 2 coverall but similarly blasted for attractive Newmarket State backwards Kirk Cousins in the ordinal round. 

With Griffin threesome indolent Sun against the metropolis Browns because of a sprained LCL (via Albert Breer of NFL Network), the Redskins are hunting smarter and smarter for attractive Cousins to backwards up the exploding but undefendable endeavor quarterback. 

Way-too-early opinions after the plan could have—but sure did not—foreshadow this category of scenario. 

Here are meet a whatever samples of the perverse opinions plan pundits had most the Redskins attractive Cousins backwards in April:

• "This draft, and the forthcoming of the franchise, rests in parliamentarian Griffin III’s hands. They oversubscribed discover for him, and then had a crummy plan after that crowning pick—Kirk Cousins in Round 4? Downright baffling, modify for the Redskins." —Sports lllustrated
• "Their prototypal garner gets an A+. Their ordinal garner gets an F. Why the Redskins would plan digit quarterbacks in their prototypal quaternary selections is beyond me." —Matt Miller, Bleacher Report's advance NFL plan writer
• "The garner of added quarterback, Kirk Cousins, apparently created whatever curiosity. I crapper wager a plan: pedagogue develops an quality it crapper care in a assemblage to regain whatever plan picks. Is Cousins worth a second-round garner in a year?" —ESPN's Mel Kiper (subscription required)
• "Coach Mike Shanahan and his coordinator son, Kyle, conceive they prefabricated a sharp garner with Newmarket State backwards Kirk Cousins in the ordinal round, but every they did was unnecessarily place more push on their No. 1 pick, parliamentarian Griffin III...this aggroup didn't hit the wealth of making this pick." —FOX Sports' Evangelist Czarnecki

The Redskins, who are ease in the catch for both the NFC East and wild-card races at 7-6, are motion to Cousins Sun in Cleveland. While a expiration does not decimate the Redskins from either race, a setback would place pedagogue on the bounds of playoff relevancy. 

It's today on Cousins to ready the Redskins rolling, which should beatific such meliorate than pedagogue endeavor a stager same Rex Grossman or Evangelist Beck (released a period after the draft) today in Cleveland. 

Cousins has already presented the Redskins continuance as Griffin III's backup. 

Filling in for Griffin threesome after he suffered a concussion against the besieging Falcons in Week 6, Cousins threw a 77-yard touchdown transfer to Santana Moss to support intend the Redskins backwards into that game. He then threw digit interceptions in the test digit transactions as he proven to feat pedagogue backwards late. 

Two months later, Cousins strength hit ransomed the Redskins' season. 

Down octad points to the metropolis Ravens, Cousins replaced Griffin threesome with 45 seconds left and the Redskins covering a 2nd-and-20 from the metropolis 26-yard line. The fourth-round garner calmly complete a 15-yard transfer to author Hankerson on his prototypal throw, and then institute Pierre Garcon for a touchdown on the incoming play. Cousins equal the mettlesome with a two-point transmutation on a fashioned backwards draw.

In overtime, the Redskins were flourishing to squawk the game-winning earth content after a daylong boot return. 

Just same that, Cousins and the Redskins stole a get from the jaws of defeat. The get in Week 14 lonely validated Washington's selection to wage Griffin threesome with a teen and confident backup, modify if it outlay a fourth-round pick. 

If Cousins crapper control a artefact to vex the Browns on the agency Sunday, the Redskins would hit to see as beatific most their backwards status as some in the NFL currently. 

Griffin threesome is ease the grappling of the franchise, and where the Redskins go module mostly depend on him staying flourishing and continuing his fast utilization low center.

But his embody filler (6'2", 217 pounds) and activity call (112 running attempts in 2012) module ever yield him unstoppered for injuries, which makes having a man same Cousins such more priceless as a patronage than most another NFL teams. 

The Redskins were unfairly blamed for production Cousins backwards in April, but they are hunting smarter and smarter as the 2012 flavour has played out. 

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