Earlier this week head coach Jay Gruden and team president Bruce Allen, both in Mobile, Ala., this week watching the Senior Bowl, expressed confidence that quarterback Kirk Cousins, due to be an unrestricted free agent, would be returning to the Redskins.
Some 400 miles southeast, Cousins, who is in Orlando, Fla., participating in the Pro Bowl, spoke more diplomatically with reporters about his contract situation and the uncertainty that awaits him in the next couple of weeks.
“They’ve got the cards and they’re holding them,” Cousins said. “They’re going to choose to do what they want to do, and I respect their judgment and opinion and I’ll react accordingly and we’ll go from there.