The day after Matthew Stafford was traded to the Los Angeles Rams for Jared Goff and the Hope diamond, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins was the next man up for trade gossip.
And it was instantaneous. Shrouded-in-secrecy NFL executives predicted widespread quarterback hopscotch from roster to roster, so naturally Cousins was due to ship out to San Francisco, Denver, Houston, or even Chicago.
These are the receipts.
Whoops — and this one.
The Cousins era in Minnesota had ceased while the Vikings would scour the wire for a quarterback like Andy Dalton — or simply downgrade to a Jimmy Garoppolo or Drew Lock via trade.