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Redskins abstract Michigan State QB Kirk CousinsASHBURN, Va. (AP) - While Robert Griffin III was actuality feted as the anew called face of the Redskins at a draft-day affair at FedEx Field, in a hasty move Washington called addition quarterback.
The Redskins put some added burden on the Heisman Trophy champ by selecting Michigan State's Kirk Cousins in the fourth annular on Saturday.
The accomplished Cousins won 27 amateur as a three-year amateur and with the aces drillmaster Mike Shanahan may accept created the affectionate of quarterback altercation that has generally belted the Redskins
Cousins said during a appointment alarm alike he was a little afraid to be best by Washington.
"I was aggravating to anticipation which teams would be attractive at a quarterback and I didn't see the Redskins cerebration forth those lines, but drillmaster Shanahan's words to me were that he couldn't canyon me up,'' Cousins said.
Griffin said he and Cousins had a connected ambit accord in college. It will be up abutting and claimed in Washington. The Redskins gave up three first-round picks and a second-round alternative to booty Griffin.
Washington was the aboriginal aggregation to baddest two quarterbacks in the aboriginal four circuit back Green Bay in 1989. The aftermost time the Redskins chose a quarterback in the top 10 afore Griffin was in 1994 back took Heath Shuler. He was eventually baffled out by Gus Frerotte, whom the Redskins took in the seventh round.
With its additional aces in Saturday's fourth round, Washington took Texas linebacker Keenan Robinson with a alternative acquired in a barter with Pittsburgh.
The Redskins are set for starting linebackers with three-time Pro Bowl aces London Fletcher and third-year man Perry Riley central and backstab Pro Bowl aces Brian Orakpo and 2011 amateur standout Ryan Kerrigan alfresco in coordinator Jim Haslett's 3-4 scheme. However, Fletcher turns 37 abutting ages and Washington lacks abyss above jack-of-all-trades Lorenzo Alexander.
Robinson said he has been told that he'll be affective from academy alfresco linebacker to the interior. He has been alive on application his easily to get off blocks and arena with a low pad akin while advancing to accomplish the transition.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Robinson, the aboriginal Texas amateur called in the draft, was a three-year amateur in the Longhorns' 3-4 defense. He had 176 tackles, 24 for losses. As a freshman, the Plano, Texas, artefact was allotment of an outstanding aegis that was led by his acquaintance Orakpo, again an All-American arresting end.
Orakpo "said he loves D.C. and I'm abiding that I'm activity to adulation it, too,'' Robinson said.
The Redskins connected acceleration up on positions by allotment Iowa bouncer Adam Gettis in the fifth round, two circuit afterwards drafting SMU's Josh LeRiebus on Friday. The 6-foot-2, 293-pound Gettis was a three-year amateur for the Hawkeyes.
Drafting two guards amid their top bristles picks sends a arresting to adept starters Kory Lichtensteiger - who absent the final 11 amateur of aftermost division with a broken appropriate ACL - and Chris Chester as able-bodied as 2011 amateur Maurice Hurt, who started eight of the final nine amateur afterwards Lichtensteiger was injured. Gettis and LeRiebus were formed out by NFL teams at center, too, which could additionally accomplish them backups to Will Montgomery, Washington's amateur at that spot.
Unlike LeRiebus, Gettis played in a zone-blocking arrangement in academy agnate to the one that Mike Shanahan's Redskins employ.
Source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com
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