By Garrett Cook and Tristan Augusto

Kirk Cousins was featured on the Netflix Documentary Quarterback. Quarterback is about the lives of 3 quarterbacks Kirk Cousins, Patrick Mahomes, and Marcus Mariota. In the documentary, it went into the player’s lives on and off the field. Kirk Cousins played for the Michigan St football team in college he was Drafted in the 4th round, 102nd overall of the 2012 to the Washington Commanders. When he played for the Commanders he wasn’t the best QB, but he led them to the playoffs twice in his 5 years of playing for them. Both times they got to the playoffs they lost in the first round. He got traded to the Minnesota Vikings in 2018. They made it to the playoffs in 2019 and 2022. In 2019 they made it to the divisional round and lost to the 49ers. In 2022 they lost in the wild card round to the Giants. Out of the 12 years he has played he has been to the Pro Bowl 4 times. The Pro Bowl is where the best players in the NFL get to play in mini-games like dodgeball. 

So far in 2023, Kirk Cousins has record numbers and he leads the league in touchdown passes. The Vikings didn’t start the year well losing very close games, but recently they have been winning and are now at four wins and four losses. On Sunday, October 29th the Vikings were playing the Packers and Kirk Cousins got injured. He left the game on a medical cart and everyone was worried. Later that day it was confirmed that he had torn his Achilles and he was sadly out for the season. That might be his last game for the Vikings because this year was the final year of his contract so if they want him they will have to give him a new contract. The NFL trade deadline was October 31st the Vikings got Quarterback Joshua Dobbs from the Arizona Cardinals. 

Four players this NFL season have suffered an Achilles injury. Aaron Rodgers, J.K. Dobbins, Tre’Davious White, and Kirk Cousins. Aaron Rodgers suffered an Achilles injury on just the 5th play of the whole season. Aaron Rodgers slipped because the turf was wet. “The players want to play on natural grass because it’s safer, but as of the 2023 season, there are 14 NFL teams out of 32 that do not use real grass.” There is a big controversy about changing grass because the NFL wants to keep the turf, but players who are getting injured are playing on turf. 

Another NFL player who has suffered from an Achilles injury before is a player named Tom Brady who played for the Patriots. In 2017 he suffered an Achilles injury which was not that serious but he missed practice for football because of the injury. Because his injury wasn’t that serious and healed a bit over time he played against the Miami Dolphins at the Gillette stadium. Thankfully his Achilles injury wasn’t that bad or else the Patriots would have had a hard time playing against other teams while their star player was healing. During the game even though Tom Brady had that injury they still managed to win.