The 2012 NFL season officially began on Tuesday, March 15th with the opening of the league's free agency. When a player's contract expires with their previous team they enter the free agency where another team can offer the player a better contract, the player may re-sign with their current team, or two teams can trade for a free agency player.
The most notable free agent players included:
- Brandon Marshall (Dolphins): signed with the Chicago Bears
- Mario Williams (Texans)
- Pierre Garcon(Colts): signed with the Washington Redskins
- Marques Colston(Saints): re-signed with New Orleans Saints
- London Fletcher (Redskins)
- Randy Moss (Retired): signed with the San Francisco 49ers
- And many others
RGIII
In other news, on Friday, March 9th the Washington Redskins made a historic trade with the St. Louis Rams for the second overall draft pick in the upcoming 2012 NFL Draft. The Redskins gave the Rams three first round picks in the 2012, 2013, and 2014 Drafts and a second round draft pick. It has been assumed the Washington Redskins will draft their franchise quarterback of the future and the current Heisman Trophy winner, Robert Griffin III (RGIII). This is a great move by the Redskins who has been a team with a very unstable quarterback situation starting more that 12 different quarterbacks in the last 10 seasons. I believe the RGIII will really help the recently noncompetitive team competitive in the upcoming seasons. I also plan on buying his jersey this summer.
We shouldn't get too far ahead and assume that the Redskins are going to get RGIII. It still all depends on the Indianapolis Colts because if they take RGIII, the Redskins will be left with Andrew Luck. Luck isn't a bad quarterback, but I feel that the RGIII best fits into the offense that the Redskins run. It is unlikely that the Colts will go for RGIII, because they run an offense completely different from what RGIII ran in college. Lets just hope that everything works out well, because if RGIII doesn't turn out to do well...it's going to suck being a Redskins fan for another decade.
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