Kirk Cousins
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Kirk Cousins ranks sixth all-time in completion percentage among quarterbacks with at least 1,500 pass attempts and eleventh in the NFL's all-time regular season career passer rating, a pair of statistical distinctions that mark a sustained level of efficiency across more than a decade of professional play. Those numbers belong to a quarterback who currently plays for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League.
Cousins was born on August 19, 1988, in Barrington and attended Holland Christian High School before enrolling at Michigan State University. His path to professional football continued when the Washington Redskins selected him in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL Draft, a relatively modest entry point for a player who would go on to accumulate the passing volume required to place among the all-time leaders in the categories he now occupies.
A citizen of the United States, Cousins has spent his career at the quarterback position, the role that defines his professional identity as an American football player. His selection by Washington in 2012 preceded years of NFL regular season work that produced the passer rating ranking he currently holds at eleventh all-time. That he now lines up under center for the Las Vegas Raiders represents the most recent chapter of a professional tenure measured, in part, by the completion percentage figure that places him sixth among all quarterbacks who have thrown at least 1,500 passes in league history.
Quotes by Kirk Cousins
I think whether home or away, it's playing a full four quarters, doing good things on offense all the way through the game rather than just in spurts.
When things are down, we can't hit the panic button, and when things are up, we can't relax. We've just got to stay consistent.
I used to tell people that in 2012 when I was trying to understand where am I most likely to be drafted and who are the three or four teams that have pursued me the most and it would make sense that they would pick me, I never thought of who would be least likely to draft me.
I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.
I don't believe it's too far-fetched to think that we as college football players can make a significant, positive difference in the youth culture of America simply by embracing the responsibilities that accompany this place of privilege.
I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.
When you go to college, you're on your own. It's you and God. It's a question of what are you made of and how much is God a part of your life. So when I went off to college, I knew that was going to be the case.
Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.
If you're not plugged into something like Athletes in Action or Campus Crusade, it's difficult to keep your eyes focused on Jesus Christ because the world is telling you differently, and your sin-nature is telling you differently.
I've called the spring game for Big Ten Network for Michigan State. It's a great opportunity to still stay around the game, to be able to feel like you're close to the action. I'm very analytical, so I think it fits the way I think.