{"id":7348,"date":"2013-12-11T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:01:12","slug":"reports-kirk-cousins-to-start-for-redskins-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/11\/reports-kirk-cousins-to-start-for-redskins-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Kirk Cousins to start for Redskins on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7177\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7177\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/griffincousins-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kirk Cousins will start in lieu of Robert Griffin III on Sunday for the Washington Redskins when they face off against the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan raised the possibility Monday of benching Griffin for the last three regular-season games, citing 24 sacks in the past five games and the desire to keep him healthy for the offseason, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Redskins players have been told Rex Grossman will backup Kirk Cousins on Sunday &#8212; and Robert Griffin III will be inactive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffDarlington\/statuses\/410795776793923585\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Snyder will not \u00a0intervene with Shanahan&#8217;s decision to make a switch at quarterback, said a team source.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins was the second quarterback the Redskins took in the 2012 draft, going to Washington in the fourth round after the team took Griffin No. 2 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins appeared in three games during the 2012 season, \u00a0leading the Redskins to a victory over the\u00a0Baltimore Ravens\u00a0after Griffin left with an injury and starting the next week against the\u00a0Cleveland Browns, another victory. He finished the season with 466 yards on 33-of-48 passing with four touchdowns and three interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins has appeared in two games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cousins will start in lieu of Robert Griffin III on Sunday for the Washington Redskins when they face off against the Atlanta Falcons. Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan raised the possibility Monday of benching Griffin for the last three regular-season games, citing 24 sacks in the past five games and the desire to keep him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,197,216,55],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-7348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kirk-cousins","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-washington-redskins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}