Kirk Cousins and Michael Penix Jr. spoke on the phone Thursday night after the Falcons stunningly took Penix with the No. 8 pick in the NFL draft.
. spoke on the phone Thursday night after the Atlanta Falcons stunningly took Penix with the No. 8 pick in the NFL draft.
Cousins was not informed that the Falcons would take a quarterback until they called him while the team was on the clock Thursday night. Mike McCartney, Cousins' agent, told ESPN's Pete Thamel that there was frustration and confusion coming from Cousins' camp, because Atlanta didn't use its first-round pick to make the team better in 2024. Instead, the Falcons used the selection on Cousins' apparent successor before Cousins even played a down for the team.
"But he's a competitor, just like us all. And you can always expect those things to go just like you kind of think." Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot said Thursday that when a team sees a quarterback it believes in, it cannot pass up the opportunity, and that was the mindset with taking Penix at No. 8 overall when Atlanta still had plenty of other needs to fill for 2024, including an anemic pass rush."If you believe in a quarterback, you have to take him," Fontenot said.
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