Kirk Cousins and the Cleveland Browns have been circling one another for weeks, as Cousins looks to leave the Atlanta Falcons after being benched late last season for rookie Michael Penix Jr.
The relationship between Cousins and the Falcons has been strained from the start, as Atlanta gave him a four-year, $180 million contract with $100 million guaranteed, only to draft Penix in the first round of the NFL draft just weeks later. Cousins's contract makes him virtually untradeable, especially for a Cleveland franchise already on the hook for Deshaun Watson's megadeal, so the only reasonable way for the Browns to obtain the veteran QB is for Atlanta to release him, something they have signaled that they won't do.
