247Sports - Could the New York Jets swap Ryan Fitzpatrick for Robert Griffin III? The Redskins released Griffin on Monday after a topsy-turvy career that saw him plummet from the heights of a No. 2 overall selection and playoff contender to a perennial bench warmer.
Mind you, the Jets are still working on a deal to retain free agent Ryan Fitzpatrick, a deal both want to get done, but the distance between his asking price and their bidding price appears to be wider than originally believed.
As of noon on Monday, two days ahead of free agency, Fitzpatrick will be allowed to negotiate with other teams who have the money to pay him what he believes he’s worth; the Jets being one of those teams is starting to look less probable, leaving them with few options.
Griffin impressed in his rookie season before his notable, and injury-influenced, statistical downturn the last several years.
He threw 20 touchdowns against only five interceptions as a rookie and boasted the third best quarterback rating behind only Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and Denver’s Peyton Manning. Griffin tallied 16 touchdowns and 12 interceptions the following season, before a four-score, six-pick nine-game outing in 2014 before being benched in favor of Kirk Cousins.
Griffin has age on his side; only 26 years old, he theoretically has at least five potentially productive years ahead of him at the least. But his highly athletic style of play has cost him time on the trainer’s table, and could again. Some team somewhere is bound to show interest in the former Heisman Trophy winner, and could conceivably give him a starting nod.
Spotrac estimates Griffin’s value to be $6.9 million annually, a discount from the kind of money Fitzpatrick would be asking, something in the neighborhood of Sam Bradford’s two-year deal worth $36 million the Eagles signed, an arrangement that will pay him $11 million in 2016.
Mind you, the Jets are still working on a deal to retain free agent Ryan Fitzpatrick, a deal both want to get done, but the distance between his asking price and their bidding price appears to be wider than originally believed.
As of noon on Monday, two days ahead of free agency, Fitzpatrick will be allowed to negotiate with other teams who have the money to pay him what he believes he’s worth; the Jets being one of those teams is starting to look less probable, leaving them with few options.
Griffin impressed in his rookie season before his notable, and injury-influenced, statistical downturn the last several years.
He threw 20 touchdowns against only five interceptions as a rookie and boasted the third best quarterback rating behind only Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and Denver’s Peyton Manning. Griffin tallied 16 touchdowns and 12 interceptions the following season, before a four-score, six-pick nine-game outing in 2014 before being benched in favor of Kirk Cousins.
Griffin has age on his side; only 26 years old, he theoretically has at least five potentially productive years ahead of him at the least. But his highly athletic style of play has cost him time on the trainer’s table, and could again. Some team somewhere is bound to show interest in the former Heisman Trophy winner, and could conceivably give him a starting nod.
Spotrac estimates Griffin’s value to be $6.9 million annually, a discount from the kind of money Fitzpatrick would be asking, something in the neighborhood of Sam Bradford’s two-year deal worth $36 million the Eagles signed, an arrangement that will pay him $11 million in 2016.