Ryan Clark defends Angel Reese in Robert Griffin III feud

Robert Griffin III, Angel Resse and Ryan Clark.

What would a feud between Robert Griffin III and Angel Reese be without Ryan Clark?

One day after Griffin made headlines for claiming that members of Reese’s inner circle told him he was correct when he stated that she hates Caitlin Clark, the ESPN NFL analyst posted a video sharing his thoughts on the matter. And in doing so, Clark claimed that the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner has a “strange fascination” with Reese, who said that Griffin had lied about hearing from her camp.

In particular, Clark noted that Griffin had gone out of his way to call out a racist photoshop of Reese, using it as a jumping off point to discuss the Chicago Sky forward. But while the Fox college football analyst defended the 2-time WNBA All-Star against the racist edit, he overshadowed that point by airing his grievances with her from a months-old controversy.

“RG3 seems to have this strange fascination with Angel Reese, or connection to the spotlight and attention that it brings or who it brings those things from,” Clark says in his video. “I know now I don’t get to speak on someone else’s Black experience or call something self-hate when I don’t know how you truly connect to the community or the culture or I can’t assume that you see yourself in the thing that you push back against. But this one should have been easy.

“Angel Reese, this young, beautiful, talented, hardworking, successful Black woman who is on an absolute tear in the WNBA, who has an opportunity now to unveil her own shoe, is depicted as a monkey in this graphic. A graphic I only saw on his page. So now his millions of followers can see this, and it should be easy to defend her against such deplorable hate and racism and bigotry and evil.

“But he couldn’t do that. He had to make himself both the victim and the hero of this story,” he continued. “He had to mention that Angel Reese did something to him instead of acknowledging what he initially did to her. He had to be the champion again for Caitlin Clark, I guess against the young, angry Black woman by lying on her and her inner circle.”

RG3 has a strange fascination with Angel Reese, or a connection to that spotlight it brings him… but this one was easy. He posted a graphic I didn’t see anywhere else of Angel as a Monkey. Just say, “That’s wrong!” He couldn’t. He pointed out that Angel hurt him, & then lied… pic.twitter.com/SeLP69Oy9j — Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) July 11, 2025

Clark didn’t stop there, questioning Griffin’s willingness to support Black people. He then referenced his past issues with his former ESPN colleague, who he publicly apologized to after stating that he can’t understand the challenges that Black women in America face because he’s married to a white woman following his initial comments about Reese in May.

“By his own admission, he says, if you don’t support people that don’t look like you, then you’re a part of the problem. Let me be clear: if you never support people that look like you, you are also a part of the problem,” Clark said. “… I know people were mad that I apologized for my initial statements, but I wanted to make sure people had clarity about what I was saying. But while we’re on apologies, we all owe Rob Parker an apology. Because though he was early, he was right about RG3.”

Parker famously made headlines during Griffin’s rookie season in 2012 when he questioned whether the former Baylor star was a “cornball brother” on ESPN’s First Take. Parker was suspended and later fired by ESPN as a result of the comments, which many on social media have recently referenced in the wake of Griffin’s issues with Reese.

As was made apparent in May, there’s clearly no love lost between the former Washington Redskins teammates, with Clark previously alluding to issues he had with Griffin during their time together at ESPN. Still, considering the amount of negative attention their last feud received, it’s certainly interesting to see Clark not only reignite it, but also reference Parker’s past comments considering his own status as an ESPN star.

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