By trading Cousins before June 1, the Falcons would only be held liable for the remaining prorated signing bonus of $37.5 ...

Per Spotrac, if the Falcons cut Cousins before June 1, they would take on $65 million in dead money on the 2025 salary cap.

In other words, releasing Cousins as a post-June 1 cut wouldn't save the Falcons immediate cap space, but it wouldn't lose them any, either. It would, however, clear the bloated $57 million cap ...

Cousins moved to Atlanta for big money and with plenty of fanfare, but things have not worked out as either party had planned ...

Kirk Cousins was one of the prized free agents of the 2024 NFL offseason. The Falcons have benched the QB and may look to ...

The Atlanta Falcons defense of their offseason quarterback decisions continues to be more indicting than helpful. The ...

If the Falcons do cut Cousins prior to next season, they are going to eat a $65 million dead cap hit, per Spotrac. Cousins’ cap hit for next season would have been $40 million if he were still ...

The Atlanta Falcons made the decision last week to bench ... so the Broncos are saving $25-million in cap space next year with Wilson off the roster. Cousins, like Wilson, has offset language ...

Cousins will make his guaranteed sum -- regardless of where he ends up -- and odds are the Falcons will be dealing with how his contract affects their salary cap for the foreseeable future.

Flynn's deal was big at the time but it was much, much smaller than Cousins and he didn't soak up a ton of salary-cap space and dead money like Cousins will, depending on what the Falcons do with ...