{"id":849631,"date":"2026-04-02T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:59:22","slug":"kirk-cousins-contract-las-vegas-raiders-kirk-cousins-contract-with-las-vegas-raiders-heres-how-much-ex-atlanta-falcons-quarterback-will-earn-check-nfl-records-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849631\/","title":{"rendered":"kirk cousins contract Las Vegas Raiders: Kirk Cousins contract with Las Vegas Raiders: Here&#8217;s how much ex-Atlanta Falcons quarterback will earn? Check NFL records, stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/kirk-cousins-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kirk Cousins contract<\/a>: Kirk Cousins signed with the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/las-vegas-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>, his agent announced on Thursday morning, giving them a veteran quarterback to help ease the expected selection of Fernando Mendoza with the top draft pick. Agent Mike McCartney announced the signing on social media, but didn&#8217;t provide contractual terms. He didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for more information.Kirk Cousins Contract<br \/>Veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins agreed to a contract with the \u200bLas Vegas Raiders, his agent \u200bconfirmed on Thursday. ESPN reported that Cousins will sign \u200ba five-year, $172 million contract, but only the first $20 million is guaranteed. The Atlanta Falcons, his former team, will pay Cousins $8.7 million this season, with the \u200cRaiders adding $1.3 million. \u2060Las \u2060Vegas also will pay him a guaranteed $10 million roster bonus next March.<br \/>The \u200bcontract also contains a two-year, $80 million team option. This is the 11th consecutive \u200bseason that Cousins will have a guaranteed contract, per ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>37-year-old Cousins reunites with new Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak, his \u200bposition coach and offensive coordinator with the \u2060Minnesota Vikings \u200cfrom 2019-21.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/118783427.cms.png\" width=\"90%\"\/>Live Events<br \/>In Las Vegas, Cousins potentially could \u200bserve \u200bas a mentor for Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, \u2060widely expected to be the No. 1 overall \u200bpick by the Raiders in the April 23-25 \u200bNFL Draft.<br \/>The only quarterback on the Raiders&#8217; current roster is Aidan O&#8217;Connell, a 2023 fourth-round pick who started 17 games from 2023-24 (7-10 record).Cousins was released by the Falcons on March 11, two years into a four-year, $180 million \u200cdeal he signed with the club in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins struggled down the stretch during his first \u200bseason with \u200bthe Falcons in 2024, \u2060throwing 18 touchdowns to 16 interceptions and losing the starting job to rookie Michael Penix Jr. He played better when he \u200bstepped in for Penix after the latter&#8217;s season-ending injury last November, throwing for 1,721 yards, 10 TDs and five picks in eight starts.<\/p>\n<p>Over 174 games (167 starts) in 14 seasons, Cousins has completed 66.7% of his passes for 44,700 yards with 298 TDs and 131 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins contract: Kirk Cousins signed with the Las Vegas Raiders, his agent announced on Thursday morning, giving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,51883,116345,55349,1744,393,2455,2454,6,11971,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-849631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kirk-cousins-contract","10":"tag-kirk-cousins-contract-las-vegas-raiders","11":"tag-kirk-cousins-stats","12":"tag-las-vegas","13":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","14":"tag-lasvegas","15":"tag-lasvegasraiders","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-contracts","18":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116336183327629172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849631","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=849631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}