I can just hear Redskins fans rejoicing! We heard that he was 100% yesterday and now it’s official. RG3 is back!
Report after the jump…
Via ESPN:
Quarterback Robert Griffin III will start the Washington Redskins’ opener on “Monday Night Football” Sept. 9 against the Philadelphia Eagles, sources close to the quarterback said Wednesday.
Griffin has practiced the past two weeks without any setbacks to his surgically repaired knee and is coming off his best week of work yet.
Griffin still is scheduled to meet with Dr. James Andrews on Thursday night, before Washington plays at Tampa Bay in the teams’ preseason finale, to get medical clearance. The Redskins-Eagles game (7 p.m. ET) is the first of two MNF games on ESPN on Sept. 9.
But the meeting is just a formality as Andrews cleared Griffin before training camp and only wants to re-examine him to make sure the knee injury has progressed to everyone’s satisfaction.
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