Browns Sign RG III
Browns sign Robert Griffin III, The Cleveland Browns are traveling from one Heisman Trophy champ from Texas to another.The Browns appear Thursday that they accept alive quarterback Robert Griffin III. chron
Griffin is affirmed $6.75 actor and can accomplish up to $11 actor with incentives in 2016 as allotment of the two-year, $15 actor accord he alive Thursday. Griffin accustomed a $3.5 signing benefit and a absolutely affirmed abject bacon of $3.25 actor this season. He can accomplish addition $750,000 in per-game agenda bonuses and $3.5 actor in alone achievement incentives for playtime, casual yards and passer rating. Griffin's accord maxes out at $22 actor over two years.
Griffin, the 2011 Heisman Trophy champ at Baylor, was the 2012 Offensive Rookie of the Year with Washington afterwards getting drafted No. 2 all-embracing afterward a blockbuster barter with St. Louis.
But back that division in which he led Washington to the NFC East title, he's collapsed aloft harder times acknowledgment to injuries and abortive play. In the accomplished three seasons, Griffin has played alone 22 games. He didn't yield a breeze at all endure division and was alone alive for one bold as Washington autonomous to alpha his above advancement Kirk Cousins.
In Cleveland, Griffin doesn't absolutely accept big shoes to fill, as he'll be replacing first-round apprehension Johnny Manziel. The 2012 Heisman champ from Texas A&M was cut this ages afterwards abundant instances of boundless off-field partying and a calm abandon delving abiding in Dallas.
The Browns accept an offensive-minded new drillmaster in Hue Jackson and alive with Manziel acutely wasn't on his agitation list. Cleveland aswell has adept Josh McCown, who started eight amateur endure season, in the fold.
Cleveland, however, has been a graveyard for awful accustomed QBs, as first-round picks Tim Couch, Brady Quinn, Brandon Weeden and Manziel all flopped during their time with the Browns back their activation in 1999.
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