Kirk Cousins

Career StatsC

Year	Team	GP	Yards	TD	INT	RTG
Career		174	44,700	298	131	96.8
2025		10	1,721	10	5	84.8
2024		14	3,508	18	16	88.6

Season	Team	GP	Yds	TD	INT	Rtg	Grade
2025		10	1721	10	5	84.8	D D Bottom 20%
2024		14	3508	18	16	88.6	C+ C+ Top 48% — above average
2023		8	2331	18	5	103.8	B+ B+ Top 20%
2022		17	4547	29	14	92.5	C+ C+ Top 48% — above average
2021		16	4221	33	7	103.1	B+ B+ Top 20%
2020		16	4265	35	13	105.0	A A Top 9%
2019		15	3603	26	6	107.4	B+ B+ Top 20%
2018		16	4298	30	10	56.3	C C Around average
2017		16	4093	27	13	56.3	C- C- Below average
2016		16	4917	25	12	97.2	B B Top 29%
2015		16	4166	29	11	56.3	C+ C+ Top 48% — above average
2014		6	1710	10	9	86.4	C+ C+ Top 48% — above average
2013		5	854	4	7	58.4	F F Bottom 5%

Grades reflect the player's performance in each season. Header grade shows the current season.

Current Contract

Contract Value Index (CVI)

Kirk Cousins earns a C Contract Value Index (CVI) on his two-year, $6.3M AAV deal with the Las Vegas Raiders — a grade that reflects the uncomfortable reality of paying a 37-year-old coming off a torn Achilles to serve as a bridge on a franchise that finished 3-14. Without current season production to evaluate, the assessment hinges entirely on career stage and health risk: Cousins arrives in Las Vegas as a longtime veteran whose resume is defined more by his ability to secure lucrative contracts than by elevating franchises to meaningful contention. At $6.3M AAV, the raw dollar figure sits well below the top of the quarterback market, which would ordinarily suggest palatable value — but for a team clearly in rebuilding mode, even a modest investment in a stopgap starter carries real opportunity cost when that money and those roster reps could be accelerating development at the position. The CVI bottoms out on career-stage concerns: a 37-year-old quarterback recovering from an Achilles tear represents meaningful injury risk, and the two-year term amplifies that exposure by potentially locking the Raiders into a placeholder scenario through a second season. The media framing here is damning and hard to dispute — this reads as expensive procrastination rather than strategic planning, a half-measure that delays commitment to a genuine long-term solution at quarterback. Reports already indicate Cousins is in a legitimate quarterback competition heading into the season, which underscores just how tenuous his hold on the starting job is and makes the two-year window feel even more speculative.

Performance Analysis

Kirk Cousins, a 14-year veteran and former Washington franchise cornerstone, enters his Raiders tenure as a bridge starter navigating a steep decline curve. His career résumé — a 96.8 passer rating and 66.7% completion rate across 174 games — reflects a legitimately productive NFL starter. This season, however, earns a C grade overall, and the current numbers tell a more concerning story. His 84.8 passer rating sits above the league average of 77.2, a modest positive in an otherwise underwhelming statistical profile. The deeper concerns surface in his 61.7% completion rate, trailing the NFL average of 64.2%, and a 6.40 yards-per-attempt that lags well behind the 6.90 league benchmark. Averaging just 172.1 passing yards per game — nearly 58 yards below the NFL average of 230.0 — Cousins is no longer pushing the ball down the field consistently. The season trend compounds the worry: after a strong B+ campaign in 2023 in Minnesota, he slipped to a C+ in 2024 and has now fallen to a D in 2025. At 37, with arm strength visibly diminished and mobility always limited, the ceiling here is a competent game-manager on a rebuilding roster. Las Vegas should monitor whether he can recapture even his 2024 efficiency, or whether a transition to a younger starter becomes the more productive path forward.

Fan Sentiment

The talk around Kirk Cousins this stretch nets a C+ sentiment grade. Media coverage has fixated on the uncomfortable reality of his age—he's 37, coming off a torn Achilles that sidelined him for much of 2025—paired with the emerging narrative that he's a band-aid solution for a rebuilding franchise. The Raiders inked him to absorb snaps while the organization figures out whether first-overall pick Fernando Mendoza is the long-term answer, and recent headlines make clear the quarterback battle is genuinely unsettled; oddsmakers and talking heads favor Cousins to start Week 1, yet there's palpable skepticism about whether that's a vote of confidence or simply recognition that a 37-year-old bridge veteran is the safest short-term option. His on-field performance grades at C, which aligns with the cautious media framing—serviceable floor, zero upside trajectory—and the Raiders' recent roster tinkering (adding depth at receiver, tight end, and the secondary while cutting defensive line depth) suggests Las Vegas is building around youth, not betting on Cousins to lead anything meaningful. The prevailing sentiment has cooled noticeably from his signing; what initially looked like a veteran safety net now reads as a placeholder move for a franchise in genuine transition, one that acknowledges Cousins' inability to move the needle while the real quarterback story belongs to Mendoza's development arc.