2021 Quarterbacks Position Recap

1. Cousins was at his best in a November game against the Packers.

Minnesota stood at 4-5 entering a Week 11 home game against Green Bay and needed a win to stay alive in the playoff race. Cousins delivered, throwing for 341 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. His passer rating of 128.4 tied his best mark of the season.

His performance was about more than stats, however, as he also put together a late-game drive to ensure the win.

With the game tied at 31, Cousins helped march Minnesota 64 yards in eight plays for a chip-shot field goal on the game’s final play. The drive took the final 2:08 of the game.

1. Cousins’ first two seasons in Minnesota were paired with Kevin Stefanski, who was his position coach (and interim offensive coordinator for three games) in 2018 and offensive coordinator in 2019.

Stefanski was on the other sideline in Week 4 as Cleveland’s head coach, but Cousins couldn’t impress his former coach as he turned in one of his worst performances of the season.

The Vikings scored a season-low seven points, and that touchdown came on the first drive of the game. Minnesota was kept off the scoreboard for the remaining 11 times it had the ball.

Cousins, normally one of the league’s most accurate passers, completed just 20 of 38 attempts (52.6 percent). He threw for 203 yards, and his yards-per-attempt average was just 5.34, which was his third-lowest tally of the season.

He was also sacked twice and threw an interception.

On a day where the Vikings up-and-down defense might have played its best game of the season, Cousins and the offense couldn’t come through.