Kirk Cousins is returning to Vikings after trade deadline deal with Raiders
- Newsrooms
- 7
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
5 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 7 newsrooms by 11:38pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 94% of the past week’s 3522 stories, and number 15 of 1038 in Sport.Part of a bigger story
Kirk Cousins: 6 developments since Sat 7 Nov.
1File photo: Kirk Cousins
The Vikings acquired Kirk Cousins from the Raiders before the NFL trade deadline, bringing back the quarterback who led Minnesota from 2019 to 2023 and made three Pro Bowls with the team.
In Los Angeles Times’s words.2
Background: Kirk Cousins
Kirk Daniel Cousins is an American professional football quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft.3
The bigger story: Kirk Cousins
6 developments since Sat 7 Nov. 1 more since this one.
- Raiders’ Kirk Cousins Gets Candid Amid Vikings Trade Speculation
2 newsrooms. Linked by Vikings, interest, quarterback
- Vikings trade rumor details deadline plans at quarterback, two potential options
1 newsroom. Linked by Trade, Vikings, quarterback, rumor
- Vikings Expected to Explore Kirk Cousins, Daniel Jones Trades
2 newsrooms. Linked by Vikings, explore
Predicting Vikings’ final spot in loaded NFC North standings after Kirk Cousins trade
You’re here7 newsrooms. Linked by Cousins, Kirk, Vikings, Kirk Cousins, trades, quarterback
- NFL trade deadline winners, losers: Vikings find QB, Jags go all-in, Jonathan Taylor stranded
1 newsroom. Linked by Vikings, winner, loser
The story so far
7 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 21
- Newsrooms and sources
- 7
- Last 3 hours
- 2
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (2 in the last three hours, 5 in the three before).
First with it: CBS Sports, 4 hr 3 min before anyone else.
Reported by 7 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 7
- Over
- 12.9 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 5.3 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1:23am AEDT | CBS Sports | 1 |
| 5:26am AEDT | Yahoo Sports | 2 |
| 6:42am AEDT | The Athletic | 3 |
| 6:48am AEDT | New York Post | 4 |
| 7:01am AEDT | Los Angeles Times | 5 |
| 7:16am AEDT | Newsweek | 6 |
| 2:15pm AEDT | The Japan Times | 7 |

