{"id":441823,"date":"2026-01-29T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441823\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:29:07","slug":"report-falcons-expected-to-release-qb-kirk-cousins-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/441823\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Falcons expected to release QB Kirk Cousins in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons are expected to release quarterback Kirk Cousins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7004747\/2026\/01\/29\/falcons-offense-matt-ryan-kevin-stefanski-michael-penix\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7004747\/2026\/01\/29\/falcons-offense-matt-ryan-kevin-stefanski-michael-penix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to<\/a> Josh Kendall and Jeff Howe of The Athletic on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins had his contract restructured and have until March 13 to release him before he is owed a $67.9 million guarantee vests for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>This comes just two years into a four-year, $180-million deal Cousins signed with the Falcons in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons are expected to release quarterback Kirk Cousins, according to Josh Kendall and Jeff Howe of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-441823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}