{"id":167428,"date":"2016-03-02T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=167428"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:06:27","slug":"kirk-cousins-expected-to-sign-franchise-tag-tender-ensuring-return-to-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=167428","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins expected to sign franchise-tag tender, ensuring return to Redskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins is expected to sign the franchise-tag tender on Thursday, according to his agent, Mike McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Redskins elected to use the non-exclusive franchise tag to retain Cousins, who was set to become a free agent on March 9, the start of the new &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/2\/kirk-cousins-expected-sign-franchise-tag-tender-en\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/2\/kirk-cousins-expected-sign-franchise-tag-tender-en\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Kirk Cousins expected to sign franchise-tag tender, ensuring return to Redskins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins is expected to sign the franchise-tag tender on Thursday, according to his agent, Mike McCartney. On Tuesday, the Redskins elected to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907617,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167428\/revisions\/1907617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}