Aaron Rodgers is the first domino that needs to fall. After that, Kirk Cousins might do what he can to alter the board.
As Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer points out, Cousins has a no-trade clause, and may still flex it despite being buried behind Michael Penix Jr. in Atlanta.
“It would be chiefly to avoid the situation he found himself in last April when he was blindsided by Atlanta’s decision to take Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth pick,” Breer writes. “Rather than taking anyone’s word for it, Cousins has already signaled to teams that he would likely want to wait to see what happens over draft weekend before accepting a trade.”
There’s a catch though.
“One thing I have heard Cousins’s camp would be amenable to is working out the particulars of a trade ahead of the draft, on the contingency that a team trading for him not take one in the first round,” Breer writes.
With the Steelers, and all three teams at the top of the draft — Titans, Browns, and Giants — in the market for a quarterback upgrade, the situations could play out differently.
If Rodgers winds up with the Steelers, Cousins would be hard-pressed to get a no-quarterback assurance from the top three teams in the draft. However, if Rodgers and Mike Tomlin don’t click, perhaps the Steelers would listen to the terms Cousins and his camp would prefer.
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