The Facts: HC Jay Gruden says Griffin is currently the starting quarterback in Washington. But he’s not making any promises about Griffin remaining the starting quarterback when the season starts. At the league meeting, Gruden said only that Griffin is the starter today, not that he’d still be the starter when the season starts. “He’s got the starting job right now,” Gruden said of Griffin. “Hopefully he takes it and runs with it.”

Diehards Line: In other words, as PFT's Michael David Smith put it, "Griffin is going to take the first snap with the first-string offense on the first day of offseason practice, and Gruden wants to see Griffin play like the franchise quarterback Washington thought it was getting when it drafted him. ...." But Colt McCoy and Kirk Cousins have the opportunity to take the job if they look better than Griffin does. Washington hasn’t decided yet whether to pick up the fifth-year option on Griffin’s rookie contract, so the team isn’t totally sold on Griffin as its quarterback of the future. Indeed, a day after GM Scot McCloughan wouldn't rule out drafting a QB with the No. 5 overall pick, Gruden reiterated there would be no hesitation to snag a signal-caller if there was consensus in the draft room. "If we think it's worth the risk to hit the reset button, if he's that good of a football player, if we decide in the building that he's that good of a football player that we think we should do that, then we should do that," the coach said. Bottom line? Take the "right now" portion of Gruden's comment about Griffin being the starter seriously.