REDSKINS SELECT RG III AND 'THE CUZ'

No surprises with the first and second overall picks of the2012 NFL Draft, but what was curious (or predictably dumfounding, depending on your perspective), was that Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins selected a second quarterback mid-way through the draft. 

The pick of Michigan State’s Kirk Cousins in the fourth round on Saturday, while the Redskins were celebrating the edition of Robert Griffin III at a draft party at FedEx Field, had the talking heads scratching.

Mike Shanahan offered up an explanation, indicating that Cousins was essentially taken as an insurance policy.  I don’t know about you, but I thought that insurance policy was named ‘John Beck’, or possibly ‘Rex Grossman’.  Whatever the case, you’ve got to wonder how “The Cuz” will take being drafted specifically for that role.  No doubt he was anticipating being selected by a team that was looking for an eventual or immediate starter

As a point of record, the last time a team selected two quarterbacks in the first four rounds was Green Bay in 1989.  That was a little more understanding then, since both quarterbacks were essentially of the same pedigree, and taken in the third and fourth rounds. Incidentally, Green Bay’s number one selection that year was football God Tony Mandarich, from Kirk Cousins alma mater; Michigan State.

In terms of the Indianapolis Colts and their first overall pick of the draft, it was a little ironic that they also had the distinction of picking the very last player in 2012.  Mr. Irrelevant, pick number 253, was quarterback Chandler Harnish of Northern Illinois.