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- Updated: May 2, 2016
Thanks to a surprisingly effective 2015 season, Kirk Cousins earned a significant pay raise for the upcoming year. Under the franchise tag, Cousins is scheduled to earn close to $20 million dollars. His average salary from 2012 to 2015 was less than $650,000, per Spotrac.
But Cousins’ goal isn’t to secure just one big payday, it’s to snag a long-term contract with guaranteed money and financial security included. Before that contract materializes, Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan will likely make Cousins prove his worth.
In other words, McCloughan wants to make sure Cousins’ 2015 season wasn’t a mirage. By the sound of it, Cousins also wants to find out, saying on Monday that if he doesn’t “play well next season,” he doesn’t “deserve to be back.”
“If they feel like they have enough information and want to make that call right now, then great, too,” Cousins told 106.7 The Fan, a CBS Sports Radio station. “But I think the ball’s in their court and I will react accordingly to whatever …
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