Redskins coach Jay Gruden said Wednesday that quarterback Robert Griffin III will have his dislocated left ankle immobilized in a hard cast for approximately 10 days and will then face a four-to-six-week rehabilitation.
Griffin dislocated the ankle in the first quarter of Washington’s 41-10 victory over Jacksonville on Sunday but did not break any bones and will not require surgery.
“Nothing new popped up, as far as any new injury [has] popped up,” Gruden said. “It was what we thought it was, and it’s just going to be 10 days in a cast and then we’ll look at it from there.”
Should Griffin miss only five weeks — the 10 days in the cast, which he was fitted for on Monday, plus the additional time for rehabilitation — he could be able to return as soon as the Redskins’ game at Dallas, a “Monday Night Football” game, on Oct. 27.
It’s more likely, however, that Griffin would be able to return sometime in mid-November.
Kirk Cousins, who replaced Griffin against the Jaguars, will take over as the Redskins’ starting quarterback beginning Sunday at Philadelphia.
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“All that being said, this isn’t something we need to make a big deal of,” Cousins said Wednesday, referring to the quarterback situation. “We’re going on the road, we’re playing a great football team — a team that’s 2-0, leading our division — and we need to have a great week of practice to be ready to play them.”
• Zac Boyer can be reached at zboyer@washingtontimes.com.
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