It doesn’t take a genius to see why RG3 is getting another shot with a third team in four years while Kaepernick’s NFL career appears dead
No matter what would eventually happen, Robert Griffin III and Colin Kaepernick were destined to be linked forever as the faces of a quarterback revolution in the NFL. For four wonderful months in the fall of 2012 they, along with Seattle’s Russell Wilson, offered a tantalizing glimpse of the future: signal-callers who ran as well as they threw. They inspired words rarely used in NFL offenses, spawning talk of “zone reads” and “the pistol”.
While Cam Newton had already established himself as a pass and run threat, the sudden arrival of Griffin, Kaepernick and Wilson that season suggested that NFL quarterbacks would never be the same. They were going to change the game for good.
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