RGIII is on the Ticket for the Redskins Season Opener, but Kirk Cousins is Starting

The Redskins front office (and obviously Jay Gruden) want to trade RGIII. That much is clear. How team owner Daniel Snyder feels right now is not clear. He can’t be happy his front office is trying to sell him on the idea of dumping RGIII through the media.

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Especially just a few months after the team – presumably Snyder signed off on it – picked up the QB’s extension. The Redskins are in a brutal spot. They’ve got a cancer eating away at their team – that’s the former Rookie of the Year – that they must extricate immediately. The problem is, they’ll be on the hook for his entire salary ($16.1 million) if they cut him; they’ll almost certainly have to swallow his entire salary if they trade him.

How can they win here? What happens if the Redskins trade RGIII to the Cardinals or the Jets or Buffalo and he suddenly thrives? Don’t act like that isn’t entirely possible. The kid is talented, but he’s injury-prone, has not done well through the coaching change in DC (he was never a fit for Jay Gruden’s offense) and he got too close too quickly with the owner.

Come on Jets, make the Redskins an offer, quick!