Everyone could see it coming — the scattered thousands at FedEx Field, the hundreds of thousands watching on television and all the Thursday-night quarterbacks cracking jokes on Twitter — Robert Griffin III was getting hit every time he dropped back to pass in the Washington Redskins preseason game against the Detroit Lions and was going to get hurt if he stayed in the game.
He had been sacked three times on five pass attempts, fumbled twice, was hit six times on eight dropbacks and was basically getting hammered more than any Redskins player this side of John Riggins at a D.