Robert Griffin III: Year away from NFL ‘helped me become a smarter player’
Robert Griffin III spent a year out of the NFL in 2017, and he thinks that has helped him.
Griffin spent the season watching more football than ever before, particularly studying other quarterbacks and their mistakes.
“It helped me become a smarter player,” Griffin said Wednesday at his introductory Baltimore Ravens press conference, via ESPN’s Jamison Hensley. “I tried to use that experience to grow. I feel like I have grown from that and I look forward to being able to show it.”
Griffin called himself a “grown player” and said he is in excellent shape health-wise.
“Being 100 percent honest, I haven’t felt this good since I came out of college,” Griffin said. “A year off of football can do that when trucks aren’t landing on you every play.”
Hopefully now that he’s employed, Griffin can focus on trying to salvage his career, which he might be able to do if he’s as healthy and improved as he says he is. It certainly beats calling out ex-coaches on social media.
