{"id":333242,"date":"2016-07-15T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=333242"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:32:28","slug":"kirk-cousins-to-play-2016-season-under-franchise-tag-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=333242","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins to play 2016 season under franchise-tag designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cousins will play the 2016 season under the $19.95 million franchise tag after he and the Washington Redskins were unable to reach an agreement on a long-term deal by Friday&#8217;s 4 p.m. deadline, according to a person familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Since Cousins signed the franchise-tag tender on March &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jul\/15\/kirk-cousins-redskins-no-long-term-deal\/?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\/jul\/15\/kirk-cousins-redskins-no-long-term-deal\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Kirk Cousins to play 2016 season under franchise-tag designation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cousins will play the 2016 season under the $19.95 million franchise tag after he and the Washington Redskins were unable to reach an agreement on&#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-333242","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\/333242","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=333242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908764,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333242\/revisions\/1908764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}