{"id":391783,"date":"2026-01-06T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391783\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:50:07","slug":"report-kirk-cousins-agrees-to-modified-contract-with-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391783\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kirk Cousins agrees to modified contract with Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons are operating without a head coach or a General Manager after firing Raheem Morris and Terry Fontenot at the end of the season, but they\u2019ve still reportedly worked out a modified contract with quarterback Kirk Cousins. <\/p>\n<p>Field Yates of ESPN.com reports that Cousins has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47528023\/source-falcons-restructure-kirk-cousins-deal-set-key-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">agreed to a reworked deal<\/a> that moves $32.9 million of his non-guaranteed $35 million salary from 2026 to 2027. They also added a vesting guarantee for the $67.9 million he\u2019s now due in 2027 to March 13 of this year. Cousins still has a guaranteed $10 million roster bonus for 2026 in his current deal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlikely that the Falcons or anyone else would pay Cousins that $67.9 million, which means he\u2019d likely work out a new contract with the Falcons or have a deal in place with a team he agrees to be traded to \u2014 Cousins has a no-trade clause \u2014 at the start of the new league year. <\/p>\n<p>Should neither of those things happen, the Falcons could release Cousins with a post-June 1 designation to spread out the remaining cap hit over the next two years. Lowering Cousins\u2019 salary would allow the Falcons to realize more 2026 cap savings without waiting until June if he does wind up getting released.<\/p>\n<p>More clarity on Cousins\u2019 future in Atlanta should come once the team has hired the new decision-makers in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons are operating without a head coach or a General Manager after firing Raheem Morris and Terry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-391783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}