For the 50th time on Sunday, Kirk Cousins will take the field for a Vikings regular-season game as both a frequent topic of debate for an anxious fan base and a rare source of quarterbacking stability.
Cousins passed Wade Wilson last week for the fourth-most regular-season quarterback starts in Vikings history. In the Vikings' home opener against the Seahawks, he will join Fran Tarkenton, Tommy Kramer and Daunte Culpepper as the only passers with a half-hundred regular-season starts. Since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, the Vikings have had only 11 seasons where a quarterback started every game; Culpepper and Cousins are the only two passers with at least two of those seasons.