• Completed 425 passes in 2018, a single-season Vikings record. His 70.1% completion rate was the 2nd-highest mark in the NFL in 2018, 2nd-highest mark in franchise history and the 10th-highest mark in NFL history.
• Threw for 4,298 yards on the year, making him the 4th Vikings QB to throw for 4,000+ passing yards in a single season (Moon, Culpepper, Favre).
• Became the first QB in NFL history to record 4,000+ passing yards, 30 passing TDs, at least a 70.0% completion rate and 10 or fewer INTs in a single season.
• Became the first QB in NFL History to record 30+ completions in 4 straight games by going 30-for-37 in Week 5.
• Holds Washington Redskins' all-time career franchise records in completion percentage (65.5%) and passer rating (93.7).
• The 1st QB in NFL history to record at least 4,000 passing yards and 4 rushing TDs in 3 straight seasons, doing so from 2015-17.
OFF THE FIELD Married his wife, Julie, in the 2014 offseason. The couple welcomed their 1st child, Cooper, in the fall of 2017 and their second, Turner, in the spring of 2019...Father, Don, is a minister and his mother, MaryAnn, is a flight attendant...Brother, Kyle, lettered 4 times as a pitcher at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan...Published his 1st book, Game Changers: Faith, Football, & Finding Your Way, in 2013...Graduated from Michigan State with 3.68 GPA while majoring in kinesiology...Frequently serves as a guest speaker at churches around the country...Supported Urban Homeworks through the 2018 My Cause My Cleats campaign, a nonprofit that builds affordable housing in urban areas...Annually holds a summer youth football camp in Holland, Michigan and held his first in Minnesota in June of 2019...In October of 2018 launched the Julie and Kirk Cousins Foundation, which aims to inspire generosity in others and make famous the generous heart of God...Has his own website, KirkCousins.org.
HONORS 4-time NFC Offensive Player of the Week - 2015 Week 7 vs. Tampa Bay (10/25), 2015 Week 10 vs. New Orleans (11/15), 2016 Week 11 vs. Green Bay (11/20) and 2017 Week 3 vs. Oakland (9/24)...Earned NFC Offensive Player of the Month honors for November in 2016 and for December in 2015...Voted FedEx Air Player of the Week 2 times - vs. Green Bay (11/20/16) and at Philadelphia (9/21/14)....Pro Bowl selection after the 2016 season...Named the 2015 PFWA Co-Most Improved Player of the Year...Honored in the NFL Top 100 Players 3 times, #85 after 2015, #70 after 2016 and #94 after 2017...2-time captain for Washington (2016-17)...Won Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week in his 1st career start at Cleveland (12/16/12).
PRO Minnesota's first 4,000 yard passer since Brett Favre in 2009...Signed with the Vikings on March 15, 2018...Selected by Washington with the 102nd overall pick (4th round) in the 2012 NFL Draft...Signed franchise tender for Washington on March 3, 2016 and again on March 13, 2017...Washington's all-time career leader in in completion percentage (65.5%) and passer rating (93.7).
2018 Started all 16 games and played every offensive snap in his debut season with the Vikings, completing 425-of-606 passes for 4,298 yards, 30 passing TDs, and 10 INTs, all career highs...Added 123 yards and 1 TD on the ground for the season...His 425 completions set a new Vikings record...Became the first QB in NFL history to throw for at least 4,000 yards, 30 TDs, a 70.0% completion rate and 10 or fewer INTs in a single season...Went 21-for-28 for 253 yards and 3 TDs at Detroit (12/23), becoming the 4th Vikings QB to throw for 4,000 yards in a single-season and tying his career high of 29 TDs in a single-season...Went 14-for-21 for 215 yards and 2 TDs vs. Miami (12/16), becoming the 7th Vikings QB to throw 25+ TDs in a single season and pushing his career passing his yardage past 20,000...Turned in his best game of the season vs. Green Bay (11/25), completing 29-of-38 passes for 342 yards and 3 TDs for a 129.5 passer rating. Cousins' 3,289 passing yards through Week 12 set a Vikings record for most passing yards through the first 11 games of a season...Was 31-for-41 for 359 yards and 2 TDs and 1 INT vs. New Orleans...Threw for 233 yards and 1 TD and 1 INT while completing 24-of-34 attempts vs. Arizona (10/14). Added 4 rushes for 14 yards and 1 TD, the 14th rushing TD of his career...Finished 30-for-37 for 301 yards and 1 TD (109.6 passer RT) at Philadelphia (10/7) to become the first player in NFL history to complete 30+ passes in 4 consecutive games. Cousins' 161 completions through 5 games set a new franchise record...Set a franchise record for most passing yards through the first 4 games of the season (1,387) by throwing for 422 yards (36-of-50, 3 TDs, 117.2 QBR) at Los Angeles (9/27). Also rushed 4 times for a team-high 28 yards...Capped an 8-play, 75-yard, fourth-quarter touchdown drive with a two-point conversion throw to Stefon Diggs, forcing overtime and completing a second-half comeback against the Packers. Completed 35 of 48 passes for 425 yards and 4 TDs and 1 INT at Green Bay (9/16), earning a 118.8 passer rating...Made his first start as a Minnesota Viking against San Francisco (9/9), completing 20 of 36 passes for 244 yards and 2 touchdowns while adding 26 yards on the ground...Threw his 100th career TD and first as a Viking, a 22-yard pass down the left sideline to WR Stefon Diggs in the 2nd quarter.
2017 Started all 16 games, completing 347 of 540 passes (64.3 percent) for 4,093 yards with 27 TDs and 13 INTs for a passer rating of 93.9...Had every pass attempt for the Redskins, becoming the first player in the team's 86-season history to record every passing attempt for the Redskins in a season...Led the Redskins in rushing TDs (4) for the 2nd time in his career (5 in 2015)...Became the 1st Redskins QB to lead the team in rushing TDs in multiple seasons since Norm Snead tied for the team lead in 1961 and 1962...Became the 1st player in league history to record at least 4,000 passing yards and 4 rushing TDs in 3 consecutive seasons... With his 1st of 3 TD passes of the game vs. DEN (12/24), his 25th of the season, he became the first quarterback in team history to record 3 25-TD seasons and also passed Mark Rypien (15,928) for the 4th-most career passing yards in Redskins history during the contest...Threw a TD pass on his first pass attempt of the day vs. ARI (12/17), doing so on his 1st individual passing attempt of a game for the 2nd time in his career and 1st since Sept. 14, 2014 vs. Jacksonville after entering the game in relief...Became the the 1st QB in Redskins history to record 3 consecutive 20-touchdown seasons after throwing for 251 yards with 2 TDs, pushing his total to 21 on the season, and 2 INTs for a passer rating of 84.4 at DAL (11/30)...Completed 19 of 31 passes for 242 yards with 2 TDs and 1 INTs in a Thanksgiving night win vs. NYG (11/23)...Threw for 322 yards with 3 TDs and 0 INTs for a passer rating of 132.6 at New Orleans (11/19), while starting his 42nd consecutive regular season game for the Redskins, passing Mark Rypien (41 from 1990-93) for the 2nd-longest streak by a Redskins QB since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger..On his 12th completion at New Orleans, he surpassed Mark Rypien (1,244) for the 4th-most career completions in team history...Completed 26-of-45 passes for 327 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT vs. Minnesota (11/12) and tied his career high with 2 rushing TDs passing Sonny Jurgensen (10) for the second-most career rushing touchdowns by a Redskins QB during the contest...Trailing 14-10 with 1:34 remaining at Seattle (11/5), helped engineer a 4-play, 70-yard, game-winning TD drive, that featured back-to-back completions of 31 and 38 yards...Completed 25-of-37 passes for 330 yards with 2 TDs and 1 INT for a passer rating of 102.3 in a win vs. San Francisco (10/15) while also rushing 4 times for 26 yards, including a 7-yard TD run that tied him with Sonny Jurgensen (10) for the 2nd-most career rushing TDs by a Redskins QB...Completed 14-of-24 passes for 220 yards with 2 TDs and no INTs for a passer rating of 116.7 at Kansas City (10/2) and also set career highs in rushing attempts (7) and rushing yards (38)...Earned 4th career NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors after completing 25-of-30 passes for 365 yards with 3 TDs and no INTs vs. Oakland (9/24)...Engineered a 10-play, 70-yard TD drive at Los Angeles Rams (9/17) that culminated in an 11-yard TD pass for the game-winning score...Completed 23-of-40 passes for 240 yards with 1 TD vs. Philadelphia (9/10) and matched his career high with 30 rushing yards on 4 carries and moved past Billy Kilmer (12,352) for the 5th-most career passing yards in Redskins history with the performance.
2016 Finished the year with single-season team records in attempts (606), completions (406) and passing yards (4,917) and matched his team record for 300-yard passing games (7)...His 4,917 passing yards ranked 3rd in the NFL and were the 15th-most in a season in NFL history...At 307.3 yards per game, he became the 1st quarterback in team history to average 300 passing yards per game in a season...Earned NFC Offensive Player of the Month honors for November, posting an NFL-high 362.0 yards per game with an 8:0 touchdown-to-interception ratio in three games. The honor was the 2nd of his career, joining linebacker Wilber Marshall as the only players in team history to win multiple Player of the Month awards...Completed 18 of 29 passes for 270 yards with 1 TD and no INTs for a passer rating of 104.1 in a win at Chicago (12/24) while also setting career highs in rushing yards (30) and rushing touchdowns (2) on 5 rushing attempts. Also threw a TD pass in his 18th consecutive road game, tying Joe Theismann for the longest streak of road games with a passing TD (18 from 1982-85). Became the second quarterback in NFL history to record 4,000 passing yards and four rushing touchdowns in consecutive seasons (Aaron Rodgers, 2008-09)...Completed 14-of-21 passes for 234 yards with 2 TDs and 1 INTs for a passer rating of 116.0 in a win at Philadelphia (12/11) and eclipsed 4,000 passing yards this season during the contest, becoming the 1st player in team history with multiple 4,000-yard passing seasons (2015 and 2016)...Threw 36 consecutive pass attempts without an INT until his 37th and final attempt of the game at Arizona (12/4), snapping a career-long streak of 187 consecutive pass attempts without an INT, dating back to Week 8 vs. Cincinnati in London, the 2nd-longest streak in Redskins history...Completed 41-of-53 passes for 449 yards with 3 TDs and 0 INTs on Thanksgiving Day at Dallas (11/24), breaking his own single-game team record with the 41 completions and also tying Mark Brunell's team record for most pass attempts in a game without an interception. Also claimed sole possession of the most career 400-yard passing games in team history with his 3rd career 400-yard effort, passing Sonny Jurgensen and Mark Rypien (2 each). The only player in team history to record multiple 400-yard passing games in a single season...Completed 21 of 30 passes for 375 yards and tied his season high with 3 TD passes and 0 INTs in a win vs. Green Bay (11/20), earning NFC Offensive Player of the Week and FedEx Air Player of the Week honors...Completed 38 of 56 passes for 458 yards with 2 TDs and 1 INT in a tie against Cincinnati (10/30) in London. His 38 completions set a then team record, surpassing the previous mark of 33 set by Cousins (vs. Tampa Bay, 10/25/15) and Jason Campbell (at Dallas, 11/18/07). His career-high 458 passing yards were the second-most in a single game in team history, trailing only Brad Johnson's 471-yard performance at San Francisco (12/26/99)...Completed 30 of 39 passes for 301 yards with 1 passing TD at Detroit (10/23) and also added a career-long 19-yard touchdown run in the 4th quarter...Completed 28-of-46 passes for 364 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT vs. Dallas (9/18) and snapped a streak of 9 consecutive regular-season games with a completion percentage of 65.0% or better, dating back to 2015, tied for the second-longest in the NFL since 1960, trailing only Joe Montana (10 in 1989)...With an INT on his 21st pass attempt vs. Pittsburgh (9/12), snapped a streak of 252 consecutive regular-season pass attempts at FedExField without an INT, dating back to Week 1 of the 2015 season. The streak – which extended to 298 consecutive attempts when including postseason play – was the longest streak of consecutive home pass attempts without an INT in team history. It also ended the streak of consecutive games with a TD pass at 17, including postseason play, the second-longest in team history (23, Sonny Jurgensen).
2015 Started all 16 games and 1 postseason game after being named the starter in late August...Completed 379 of 543 passes (69.8 percent) for 4,166 yards with 29 touchdowns and 11 interceptions for a passer rating of 101.6 in the 2015 regular season and set single-season team records (which he would surpass or match in 2016) for attempts (543), completions (379), passing yards (4,166) and 300-yard passing games (7)... Shared PFWA Co-Most Improved Player honors with Panthers CB Josh Norman...Twice earned NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors (Weeks 7 and 10) and was named NFC Offensive Player of the Month in December...His 29 passing touchdowns tied Joe Theismann (29 in 1983) for the 2nd-most in a season in team history...Became the 1st player in team history to throw a touchdown in all 16 games in a season since the adoption of the 16-game schedule in 1978 and was 1 of only 2 NFL QBs to throw a touchdown pass in all 16 regular season games in 2015 (Russell Wilson)...Became the 1st Redskins QB to lead the NFL in completion percentage since Sonny Jurgensen in 1970...Completed 74.7% of his pass attempts in home games, the highest home completion percentage in a season in NFL history, surpassing Jim Harbaugh's 74.3% with the Indianapolis Colts in 1997...117.0 passer rating in home games was the best by a Redskins QB since at least 1950, surpassing the 111.8 mark set by Jurgensen in 1970...Became the 12th Redskins QB (and the 1st since 2009) to start all 16 games in a season since the NFL adopted the 16-game schedule in 1978...Completed 29-of-46 passes for 329 yards with 1 passing TD and 1 rushing TD in his 1st postseason start in NFC Wild Card Round vs. Green Bay (1/10/16). Became the 1st Redskins QB to throw for a TD and run for a TD in a single postseason game and tied Todd Collins' franchise record for completions in a postseason game (29, NFC Wild Card Round at Seattle on Jan. 5, 2008)... Completed 12-of-15 passes for 176 yards with 3 TDs and 0 INTs for a passer rating of 155.1 in regular-season finale at Dallas (1/3/16) before exiting in the 2nd quarter and became the first player in team history to throw 3 TDs in the 1st quarter of a game...Was his 6th consecutive game with a passer rating of 100.0 or better, the longest streak by a Redskins QB in records available back to 1960. Earned NFC Offensive Player of the Month for December...Completed 31-of-46 passes for 365 yards with 4 TDs and 0 INTs with a passer rating of 120.3 in a division-clinching win at Philadelphia (12/26)...Finished regular-season home slate having thrown 232 consecutive pass attempts at home without an interception dating back to Week 1, the longest such home streak in team history according to the Elias Sports Bureau...Completed 22-of-28 passes for 319 yards and tied his career high with 4 passing TDs and added a 13-yard rushing TD in a win vs. Buffalo (12/20)...Completed 20 of 25 passes for 324 yards with a career-high 4 TDs and no INTs for a perfect passer rating of 158.3 in a 47-14 rout vs. New Orleans (11/15)...Earned NFC Offensive Player of the Weeks honors, as his perfect passer rating was the Redskins' 1st among QBs with at least 20 attempts in records available dating back to 1950...Became the 1st Redskins QB to pass for at least 300 yards and post a rating of at least 150.0 in a game since Pro Football Hall of Famer Sammy Baugh on Oct. 31, 1948...Completed 33 of 40 passes for 317 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INTs and also rushed 3 times for 15 yards with a rushing TD in the largest comeback win (24 points) in team history vs. Tampa Bay (10/25)...Earned NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors for his performance vs Tampa Bay, as his career-high 33 completions tied Jason Campbell's franchise record at Dallas (11/18/07)...Became the 1st Redskins QB to record at least 3 passing touchdowns and at least 1 rushing TD in a single game since Trent Green vs. Arizona (11/22/98)...Also became the 1st Redskins QB since 1960 to record 3 30-completion games in a single season...According to the Elias Sports Bureau, became the 1st player to throw game-winning passes in the final 30 seconds of the 4th quarter twice in the same calendar month since Drew Bledsoe in December 2005...Completed 21-of-32 passes for 219 yards with 1 TD and 1 INTs at Atlanta (10/11), forcing OT with a 4-play, 46-yard drive in 24 seconds to set up a game-tying FG...Recorded 31 completions on 46 attempts for 290 yards with 1 TD and 0 INTs vs. Philadelphia (10/4) in addition to scoring his first career rushing touchdown while engineering a 15-play, 90-yard drive culminating with a 4-yard TD pass to Pierre Garçon to complete his 1st 4th-quarter come-from-behind victory as a starter.
2014 Appeared in 6 games with 5 starts and totaled 1,710 yards, 10 TDs and 9 INTs on 126-of-204 passing...Started at Philadelphia (9/21) and completed 30-of-48 passes for 427 yards with 3 TDs and a passer rating of 103.4 marking the 1st 400-yard passing day of his career and the first by a Redskins quarterback since Donovan McNabb threw for 426 vs. Houston (9/19/10)...Earned FedEx Air Player of the Week honors for his performance at Philadelphia...Entered in relief vs. Jacksonville (9/14) and completed 22-of-33 passes of 250 yards with 2 TDs and a 109.4 passer rating, completing his first 12 passes, the longest consecutive completion streak of his career, exceeding his 10 consecutive completions vs. Dallas (12/22/13).
2013 Appeared in 5 games, starting the final 3 of the season...Compiled 854 yards, 4 TDs and 7 INTs on 81-for-155 pasing on the season...Started at Atlanta (12/15), completing 29 of 45 passes for 381 yards and 3 TDs, all career highs at the time...Became the 1st Redskins QB in the Super Bowl era to throw for 300 yards in each of his 1st 2 career starts, according to the Elias Sports Bureau...Threw for 248 yards in the first half at Atlanta, the most in a 1st half by a Redskins QB since Mark Rypien threw for 259 yards in the 1st 2 quarters vs. Atlanta (11/10/91).
2012 Played in 3 regular-season games with 1 start and saw his 1st postseason action...Completed 3 of 10 passes for 31 yards in relief of an injured Robert Griffin III in the NFC Wild Card Round vs. SEA (1/6/13)...Made his 1st career start in a win at Cleveland (12/16), completing 26-of-37 passes for 329 yards with 2 TDs, giving him his 1st 300-yard passing performance and also won Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week...Led the 1st 4th-quarter comeback of his career, replacing Griffin III in the final two minutes of a win vs. Baltimore (12/9), leading an 8-point 4th-quarter comeback by connecting with Pierre Garçon for an 11-yard touchdown and then converted the game-tying two-point conversion on a QB draw, marking the first time in team history that the Redskins had scored a 2-point conversion to send a game to overtime....Saw his 1st action vs. Atlanta (10/7), entering in relief of the injured Griffin III in the 3rd quarter and completing 5 of 9 passes for 111 yards with 1 TD and 2 INTs, throwing the 1st TD pass of his career, finding Santana Moss for a 77-yard TD.
COLLEGE Appeared in 45 games, starting 39 of his last 40 contests, completing 723 of 1,128 passes (64.1%) for 9,131 yards, 66 TDs and 30 INTs...Gained 9,004 yards on 1,239 plays, an average of 7.3 yards per snap and 200.1 yards per game...Graduated as the school record-holder with 66 career TD passes, topping the previous mark of 61 by Jeff Smoker (2000-03)...Exited Michigan State ranking 10th on the Big Ten Conference all-time TD passes list (66)...His 25 TD passes in 2011 broke the old school season record of 22 by Drew Stanton in 2005...Threw for at least 2 TDs in 19 starts...Set school record for career pass completions (723)...His 34 completions vs. Notre Dame in 2011 were one shy of Smoker's school single-game record (35 vs. Ohio State in 2003)...1 of seven 7 players in school history to complete at least 60% of his passes for MSU, as his pass completion percentage of 64.1 was second in school history and tied for 7th in Big Ten Conference history...Established a Michigan State career-record with a 146.1 pass efficiency rating, topping the old mark of 142.3 by Gene Glick (1946-49)...Broke school record with 9,004 yards in total offense for his career...Was only the 2nd player in Spartan history to be named team captain as a sophomore and the 1st since 1949...Set the school career record with 26 games throwing for at least 200 yards...As of 2011, was 1 of only 16 players in the history of the university to earn Academic All-Big Ten Conference honors all 4 seasons.
PREP Attended Holland (Michigan) Christian H.S., where he lettered in football, baseball and basketball...Earned All-Ottawa-Kent Conference honors as a QB for the football team, as a pitcher for the baseball squad and as a shooting guard for basketball...Was a 3-star prospect by Rivals.com...Finished prep career completing 198-of-366 passes for 3,204 yards, 40 TDs and 18 INTs in 16 games...In 2006, was an all-state and academic all-state honorable mention choice by the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association, as he went on to set 35 school game-, season- and career-records en route to garnering Area Player of the Year accolades...That season, he completed 130 of 231 throws (.563) for 2,088 yards, 28 TDs and 10 INTs as a senior, leading the Maroons to the playoffs for the 1st time in school history.
