Five years after former Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III announced, then scrapped, a tell-all book about his time with an inherently dysfunctional franchise, Griffin is apparently ready to tell his story. Or at least part of it.<\/p>\n
Griffin, while wearing a full uniform of the franchise he played for in 2012 (including a jersey with the abandoned name and a helmet with the expunged logo), moves his 2012 NFL offensive rookie of the year trophy from a chair and then sits down. A graphic on the screen says, \u201cPreparing for my Netflix Documentary about why they kept running me when I only had one leg<\/a> against Seattle in 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s referring to the wild-card game against the Seahawks, during which his heavily-braced right leg gave out.<\/p>\n Griffin originally injured his knee in Week 14 against the Ravens. After missing only one game, he returned for the final two weeks of the regular season and the playoff game against the Seahawks.<\/p>\n His career wasn\u2019t the same after that. He started 13 games in 2013 and seven in 2014. By 2015, the team had put him in bubble wrap to avoid his injury-guaranteed fifth-year option for 2016, playing Kirk Cousins instead. Griffin then spent one year with the Browns and three with the Ravens before his NFL career ended.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether the documentary will cover other aspects of Griffin\u2019s time in Washington. His book would have apparently touched on a variety of topics, including (as he said in 2021) \u201cmy experience with sexual harassment in Washington<\/a>,\u201d adding in a video announcing the book: \u201cI\u2019m gonna open your eyes to the sexual harassment that permeated the walls of that building<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Griffin later had \u201csecond thoughts<\/a>\u201d about the book project. His agent denied<\/a> that the decision was influenced by any direct or indirect pressure from the team, the league, or Griffin\u2019s employer at the time, ESPN.<\/p>\n UPDATE 9:02 p.m. ET: So apparently this isn\u2019t real. I mean, it\u2019s real, but RGIII has decided to get on an apparently cool and hip meme to pretend you\u2019re doing at Netflix documentary. (At times like this, I\u2019m glad I\u2019m old.) But it\u2019s one thing for some random person to do it. It\u2019s another for someone who would plausibly be the subject of a Netflix documentary to do it.<\/p>\n