The Tampa Bay Buccaneers just announced a one-year contract extension for backup quarterback Ryan Griffin, who’s currently out with a shoulder injury. The extension will keep him under contract through the 2018 season.
The Bucs have been grooming Griffin to be the team’s primary backup for three years on end now, and he looked to be outplaying Ryan Fitzpatrick in preseason before the shoulder injury. But that injury left the Bucs with very few options: they could waive Griffin with an injured designation, and risk losing him (you can’t place players directly on injured reserve in the offseason, they have to go through waivers), or they could hang on to him while he’s injured and his contract runs out next offseason.