ESPN has reportedly fired Robert Griffin III, according to The Athletic.
They fired the former NFL star just weeks before the new season, despite having two years left on his contract. He was seen as a rising star at the network.
Griffin, named the 2012 Offensive Rookie of the Year, played for the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens during his NFL career.
He joined ESPN in 2021 after Fox Sports and ESPN lost interest in Griffin’s audition. Both were very impressed with Griffin’s audition.
The former quarterback worked on ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” show but was replaced by Jason Kelce this offseason. The recently retired Philadelphia Eagles star is seen as a key asset to the network.
ESPN has reportedly fired Robert Griffin III despite having two years left on his contract
Griffin also worked on ESPN’s college football broadcasts, along with announcer Bob Wischusen.
Earlier this month, Griffin supported controversial Olympic boxer Imane Khelif after she was embroiled in a gender controversy in Paris.
Khelif, who later won a gold medal, was disqualified from the 2023 world championships after failing the now-banned International Boxing Association’s undisclosed gender test.
The 25-year-old woman, who is not a transgender woman and has never identified as such, is said to have male ‘XY chromosomes’.
Amid outrage from former President Donald Trump and others over her attendance at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Griffin pointed out that Khelif is a “biological female” who deserves “protection.”
“This is one of the cruelest and most unfair situations I have ever seen at the Olympics,” the former quarterback said in a clip posted to social media on Friday.
“If you do research, you’ll find that five million women have higher testosterone levels than most women,” he explained.
“This young girl is not a man competing with women, she is a woman being unfairly judged.”
More to come.