The Vikings cleared one of the big hurdles of their offseason on Monday morning, signing quarterback Kirk Cousins to a two-year contract extension, according to his agent Mike McCartney.
Terms of Cousins’ new deal were not immediately available, but the move is expected to help the Vikings clear cap space heading into the 2020 league year, which officially begins on Wednesday. Cousins was scheduled to carry a $31 million cap hit in the final year of the deal he signed in 2018, and the Vikings had been eyeing a new deal with the quarterback, both to reward him for a career year and reduce his salary cap figure in 2020.