Class act. Role model. Good sport. Those three things define Kirk Cousins as a person on and off the football field. On Sunday afternoon, Cousins wasn’t just those three as well as a game-ball achieving quarterback in a huge win over the New Orleans Saints, he was a great son as well.
Going up against Drew Brees — a veteran quarterback who many young guys in the NFL looked up to as kids — had to have been a surreal thing for the Washington Redskins‘ first-year starter. It was going to be a great game and one in which Washington would have to fight hard to earn a win in.