{"id":580993,"date":"2026-04-02T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580993\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:47:10","slug":"kirk-cousins-agrees-to-sign-with-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580993\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins agrees to sign with Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week at the annual league meeting, Raiders coach Klint Kubiak said he would prefer to have a rookie quarterback <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/klint-kubiak-ideally-you-dont-want-a-rookie-qb-to-start-from-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">watch and learn from a veteran<\/a> instead of starting from Day 1. <\/p>\n<p>With Fernando Mendoza likely on his way as the No. 1 overall pick, Las Vegas has now put itself in a position to have that happen. <\/p>\n<p>Per agent Mike McCartney, Kirk Cousins is signing with the Raiders. <\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>Cousins, 37, was released by the Falcons last month after two seasons with the club. He\u2019ll now head to Las Vegas in what is almost sure to be a bridge QB role. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a contrast from a couple of years ago, when Cousins signed with Atlanta before the club surprisingly selected quarterback Michael Penix Jr. at No. 8 overall in the first round. <\/p>\n<p>In 10 appearances with eight starts for the Falcons last year, Cousins completed 61.7 percent of his passes for 1,721 yards with 10 touchdowns and five interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week at the annual league meeting, Raiders coach Klint Kubiak said he would prefer to have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-580993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}