The Atlanta Falcons probably didn’t foresee how the 2024 NFL season would play out, otherwise they wouldn’t have given veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins a four-year contract worth up to $180 million.
In his first season in Atlanta, Cousins repaid the Falcons with a middling and disappointing campaign, throwing for 3,508 yards, 18 touchdowns and a career-high 16 interceptions across 14 games before getting benched in favor of rookie Michael Penix Jr. The 36-year-old signal-caller ended the year on the lowest of lows with one touchdown against nine interceptions over his last five games—which may very well have marked Cousins’s final stint as the Falcons’ starter.
