Kirk Cousins $180M Contract: New Falcons QB’s Career Earnings vs Tom Brady’s Will Leave You Shocked

It’s the free-agent negotiating period in the league, you know what that means: the off-season drama climbing its way toward the climax and all the real tussle between the teams reaching the fever pitch. The first major byproduct of it in 2024? Kirk Cousins signed with the Atlanta Falcons for 4 years for a whopping $180 Million. The initial wave of shock that came from the announcement made on Tuesday was just a tiny teaser of the storm about to unleash in the following hours.

Let’s face it: that’s one lucrative contract. It’s not often that you see a QB without some serious postseason success landing a nine-figure contract. Kirk Cousins is for the win. While the Falcons must have also won here by getting a viable short-term option to fill out the void after Matt Ryan’s departure, Cousins won bigger. Falcons promised the QB a $50,000,000 signing bonus and a $100,000,000 guaranteed. With this contract, Cousins will receive an average annual salary of $45,000,000. In 2024, the year of his joining, Cousins will get  $12,500,000 as the base salary and a signing bonus of $50,000,000.

Tom Brady v. Kirk Cousins: Career earnings comparison

But you know why Kirk Cousins really won? Even the GOAT Tom Brady NEVER received a nine-figure contract in his 22 years of ornate postseason success. As baffling as that is, yes, the highest Brady went was a $72,000,000 5-year contract extension with the Patriots, running from 2010 to 2015. Even in terms of estimated per annum earnings, Cousins beats Brady. Brady started with $231,500 in the year 2000 with the Patriots and reached $23,000,000 as his approximate earnings in 2019 before he bid his adieu to the franchise. The Buccs were financially more kind to Brady, thanks to the charisma he had created in the league throughout his reign as Patriots QB. Buccs started with $28,375,000 in 2020, going his career highest at $39,420,588 in 2021, while ending his career with the franchise with $30,000,000 in 2022.

For Cousins? $40,028,856 came as a breeze in 2020, recording his career-high estimated salary earnings. Following in 2022, the Vikings gave him $40,000,00, fairly higher than Brady. Well, the Falcons are not holding back on lavishing money on Cousins, with him hitting his new career-high of $62,500,000 in 2024. Adding all of it up, Cousins is approximated to earn $412 Million in his 16 seasons and 1 playoff win. Ironically, after 23 seasons and a celebratory 23 playoff wins, Tom Brady’s career earnings totals off to $333 Million.

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What do you think of the whooping disparity in the career earnings between the GOAT of the league and the former Vikings QB? Do you think it is well deserved?

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