Kirk Cousins signs with the Raiders, NFL Owners Meetings, & more!
Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast
NFL Business
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the business of sports with |
| 0:36.8 | Andrew Brand. I'm your host, One Andrew Brand. We are produced by Jack Connell. |
| 0:41.1 | Musical producer is my son, Sam Brand, who's in Japan right now, working on J-pop. |
| 0:46.6 | And we are presented, as always, by Draft Kings. |
| 0:49.6 | Hope you having a good week on this first week of April. |
| 0:52.1 | Happy April Fool's Day yesterday, recording this on |
| 0:56.0 | Thursday the 2nd of April. We're heading into March Madness's final event, which is in April, |
| 1:02.4 | the final four. I'll talk about that in a minute. I got a lot on the NFL annual owners meeting, |
| 1:08.3 | something I was part of for 10 years, can give you some insights |
| 1:11.3 | into there. And I want to start before we get to that with an NFL business of sports |
| 1:17.1 | Hall of Famer, someone I've talked about often, someone we all have raved about his earning |
| 1:22.6 | power over the years, which is now totaling over $330 million. |
| 1:31.3 | Kirk Cousins today signs, there were rumors about other teams. |
| 1:32.6 | Sean McVeigh was interested. |
| 1:40.4 | Back to Minnesota was an interesting thing to back up Kyler Murray, but he's going to Vegas, |
| 1:42.8 | and they'll have the presumptive number one pick. |
| 1:45.9 | Fernando Mardoza will be a raider within a month |
| 1:53.0 | and Kirk Cousins will be the backup. So this is something where Kirk Cousins signed two years ago with the Atlanta Falcons and I still shake my head at his earning power. He has consistently |
| 1:59.2 | leveraged his ability to make the most money, and he did it again |
| 2:01.9 | with 100 million guarantees. Forget whatever the contract total value was, but he signed with the |
| 2:08.1 | Falcons, 100 million guaranteed over two years, basically. The last 10 million of it is allocated to |
| 2:15.2 | the third year, which is this year. I'll talk about that in a |
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