Robert Griffin III the person

Most people may know Robert Griffin III as a quarterback from the University of Baylor who just won the Heisman trophy.  Others know him the person who has brought the Baylor Bears to respectability as a football team in the Big 12.   If this is how you know Griffin, you really do not know him as all.

Griffin was born in Japan, where his parents, Robert Jr. and Jacqueline, both were Army Sergeants were stationed.  The family would later move to Washington state, then New Orleans and finally to Copperas Cove, Texas in 1997.  RG3 would graduate from Copperas Cove High School and play basketball, football and run track.

Griffin is affectionately known as RG3.  RG3 entered Baylor in the spring of 2008 a semester early, because finished all the necessary credits need to graduate high school at the age of 17.  Griffin initially committed to play for the University of Houston under head coach Art Briles.  When Briles left Houston to coach at Baylor Griffin switched his oral commitment to Baylor.  The major reason Griffin switch was Briles promised Griffin that he could play football and run track.

In his first semester at Baylor Griffin would run track and finish first in the 400-meter hurdles at the Big 12 Conference and the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship meets.  He broke the NCAA Midwest Regional 400-meter hurdles record.  Griffin finished in third place in the NCAA meet and participated in the U.S. Olympic Trials.  RG3 has played four years at Baylor, but he was injured in his sophomore year after three games and received a medical redshirt for an additional year to play college football.

Griffin finished his undergraduate work in Communications with a 3.67 GPA and is currently pursuing a Masters in Communications.  Griffin has the option to return to college because he has another year of eligibility left and would like to pursue a law degree.  Despite having another year of left to play football at Baylor he would have to get permission from the NCAA to if he choose to continue playing football.

RG3 has many awards and accomplishments.  The best recognition that Griffin receives are the ones that comes when the cameras are not rolling and people talk openly about him as a person.  Griffin is a far better person than he is an athlete.  People love to talk about how selfless he is or how kind he treats everyone.  People who do not know Griffin are surprised when they hear him speak for the first time.  They often say how well-spoken he is.  Once you know Griffin nothing about him will surprise you.