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Wait, what?
Yes, every word of the headline is true. In the sixth round of the 2012 NFL draft, the New York Jets selected a player from Baylor named Robert Griffin. Of course, the Griffin the Jets got with the 203rd overall pick is a right guard -- he's Robert T. Griffin, a 6-foot-6, 333-pound offensive lineman who was originally recruited as a 370-pound cheeseburger of a man. He's not RGIII, but he does go by three different nicknames -- "RGII,'' "Deuce,'' or "Big Griff,''
"I get it all the time when I tell people my name,'' Griffin told SI.com a couple weeks ago between pre-draft training sessions. "In Waco, people know me by now and they don't have any trouble keeping it straight. But when I'm out and about in the Dallas area, I tell people I'm Robert Griffin and play for Baylor, and they say, 'No you don't. You're too big to be RG3. You don't play quarterback.' I've had a lot of people try to tell me I'm not him."
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George Bass, RGII's agent, recently said that he had to be careful when he's talking to NFL teams about his client -- kinda like the recent commercial in which a guy named Michael Jordan shows up at different events and disappoints everybody who's expecting the "real" MJ.
"I always had to make it clear I was talking about Robert T. Griffin,'' Bass said. "The offensive lineman. And then I'd put in parentheses, not RG3 . Not that it always helped. It still got to be pretty interesting at times.''
That the bigger Griffin plays on the same team as the smaller, faster, and far more highly-rated RGIII? We'll that's just one of those quirks of fate. The big man on his former quarterback:
"RGIII, he's one of a kind.
