{"id":436170,"date":"2017-02-20T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=436170"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:58:30","slug":"kirk-cousins-redskins-qb-still-hasnt-been-given-a-franchise-tag-the-clock-is-ticking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=436170","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins, Redskins QB, still hasn&#8217;t been given a franchise tag; the clock is ticking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins season ended, speculation immediately began with the 28-year-old quarterback and his next contract.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins is set to become an unrestricted free agent on March 9. <\/p>\n<p>With the NFL&#8217;s franchise and transition tag time frame opening on Feb. 15, the Redskins still remain mum on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/feb\/20\/kirk-cousins-redskins-qb-still-hasnt-been-given-a-\/?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\/2017\/feb\/20\/kirk-cousins-redskins-qb-still-hasnt-been-given-a-\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Kirk Cousins, Redskins QB, still hasn&#039;t been given a franchise tag; the clock is ticking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins season ended, speculation immediately began with the 28-year-old quarterback and his next contract. Cousins is set to become an unrestricted&#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-436170","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\/436170","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=436170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907250,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436170\/revisions\/1907250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}