{"id":33463,"date":"2025-05-08T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33463\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:31:10","slug":"colts-encouraged-to-pursue-kirk-cousins-in-offseason-trade-with-falcons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33463\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts Encouraged to Pursue Kirk Cousins in Offseason Trade With Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans were ecstatic when the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> selected Anthony Richardson<\/a> with the fourth overall pick in 2023. <\/p>\n

The Florida quarterback<\/a> was compared to Buffalo Bills<\/a> superstar Josh Allen<\/a> in the sense that he wielded a unique combination of speed, power, and a rocket arm.<\/p>\n

The only catch was that Richardson was an extremely raw prospect, so it would take a few years of seasoning and a bit of luck for these abilities to come to fruition. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the polarizing quarterback has worn out his welcome in Indianapolis already with the team\u2019s brass bringing in veteran quarterback Daniel Jones<\/a> as competition.<\/p>\n

\"Indianapolis<\/a><\/p>\n

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson (5) throws the ball during pregame warm-up Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, ahead of a game against the Buffalo Bills at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Grace Hollars\/IndyStar \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Everyone outside of the Colts\u2019 building believes that the battle will be counterintuitive because both players have massive deficiencies in their games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They drafted a quarterback in the sixth round, so although he\u2019ll probably never play for the team unless there is a dire injury situation, Indianapolis is clearly willing to exhaust all options at the position.<\/p>\n

Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report made a list of potential landing spots for some of the most logical trade pieces in the league and the Colts made the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is clear that the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> have had enough of the Kirk Cousins experience and they are willing to trade him so he doesn\u2019t just rot away on the bench.<\/p>\n

Knox has Indianapolis signing up for a few seasons of Cousins in a move that would revive the quarterback position in Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been grasping at straws since Andrew Luck abruptly retired in 2019 and have had no luck.<\/p>\n

Cousins is obviously a far cry from the player he was with the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> a couple seasons ago, but he proved during the first half of last season that he is still a capable starter in the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a move the Colts should strongly consider as they won\u2019t have to give up much compensation and will get a quality starter in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans were ecstatic when the Indianapolis Colts selected Anthony Richardson with the fourth overall pick in 2023. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,392,294,6,13113],"class_list":{"0":"post-33463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-falcons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts","14":"tag-kirk-cousins","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-trades"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114471756444786589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}