{"id":598053,"date":"2023-01-16T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/robert-griffin-iii-backs-lamar-jackson-says-knee-injury-changed-career-trajectory\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:49:33","slug":"robert-griffin-iii-backs-lamar-jackson-says-knee-injury-changed-career-trajectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/robert-griffin-iii-backs-lamar-jackson-says-knee-injury-changed-career-trajectory\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Griffin III Backs Lamar Jackson, Says Knee Injury Changed Career Trajectory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scott Polacek<\/span><\/a>@@ScottPolacek<\/span>Twitter Logo<\/title><\/svg><\/a>Featured Columnist IV<\/span><\/span>January 16, 2023<\/span><\/header>\n
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Few people in football history would know better what it is like to play with a knee injury as a mobile quarterback than Robert Griffin III, and the former Washington quarterback and current ESPN commentator backed Lamar Jackson sitting out Sunday’s playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n

Griffin shared a message of his own knee injury that he said “changed the trajectory of my career” and supported the Baltimore Ravens quarterbacks’ decision:<\/p>\n

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This is why you don’t just put a brace on it and play. Played with no ACL and LCL for my brothers\/team. Changed the trajectory of my career. Hindsight is 20\/20. I didn’t have the luxury of that. Lamar does. He is DOING THE RIGHT THING. pic.twitter.com\/UPY5pKNOcH<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jackson has not played since the Ravens’ Dec. 4 win over the Denver Broncos because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Speculation that he has not played in part because of his contract situation with free agency potentially looming this offseason reached a point that Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh had to dismiss<\/a> the notion when asked about it.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Jackson tweeted<\/a> that his knee is still “unstable” because of a PCL Grade 2 sprain that is close to a Grade 3-level injury.<\/p>\n

For his part, Griffin was the 2012 Offensive Rookie of the Year and a Pro Bowler. However, he suffered the knee injury in a playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks that season and was never a Pro Bowler again for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n

It is apparent he wants Jackson, who was the 2019 NFL MVP, to avoid a similar fate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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