Vikings’ Kirk Cousins Reveals What He’s Counting On After Trade
The Minnesota Vikings are one of the best defensive teams in the NFL during the 2026 campaign, but they have a major weakness at the quarterback position, which they’ve tried to address with several different players, like J.J. McCarthy, Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz.
After the team’s most recent loss to the Buffalo Bills, where Wentz was virtually unplayable, the Vikings knew something had to be done ahead of this week’s NFL trade deadline.
Ironically enough, the perfect opportunity arose when they brought back veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins to fill the void under center, which head coach Kevin O’Connell convinced him to do, via ESPN.
“Kevin knows me,” Cousins said. “Kevin knows what I do well. Kevin knows what I don’t do well. Kevin knows what I can handle. Kevin knows what I can’t handle. And I think that helps, not just that he knows your strengths, but that he knows your weaknesses and that as a result he’s going to try to protect you and not have you do things that he knows, ‘You know what, that’s not how Kirk functions. That’s not his best chance of success.’ And I think the fact that he knows me well, the good about me and the bad about me. I think should help us.”
Before getting shipped to the Vikings for another stint in Minnesota, Cousins was putting up numbers with the Las Vegas Raiders, proving he can still play the game at a high level given the opportunity.
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He’ll try to continue that with better weapons and familiar surroundings for a Vikings team that has Super Bowl aspirations.
