{"id":573346,"date":"2018-02-04T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=573346"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:53:22","slug":"redskins-mull-using-franchise-tag-on-kirk-cousins-again-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=573346","title":{"rendered":"Redskins mull using franchise tag on Kirk Cousins again: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There might be more drama to come with Kirk Cousins and the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n<p>According to an ESPN report, the Redskins are considering using the franchise tag on Cousins \u2014 with the intention of trading him for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins have until March 6 to decide if they want to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/feb\/4\/redskins-weighing-risk-franchise-kirk-cousins-repo\/?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\/2018\/feb\/4\/redskins-weighing-risk-franchise-kirk-cousins-repo\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Redskins mull using franchise tag on Kirk Cousins again: report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There might be more drama to come with Kirk Cousins and the Washington Redskins. According to an ESPN report, the Redskins are considering using the franchise&#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-573346","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\/573346","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=573346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906880,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573346\/revisions\/1906880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}