Kirk Cousins (QB, MIN) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: It is hard to trust Kirk Cousins as a weekly QB1 if only because Minnesota should be a run-first team. Last season, the Vikings set some low-volume records on the passing front through the first weeks of the year, and that shouldn't change all of a sudden with Dalvin Cook still playing RB1 and without Stefon Diggs in two anymore.

That being said, and although Cousins didn't have an otherworldly performance in Week 1, he still completed 19 of 25 passes for 259 yards and two scores while only throwing one interception. He also added 34 yards on four rushing attempts, and his 26.8 PPR points were good to finish as the top-17 player overall and QB9 through Sunday's games.

While it is true that Cousins reached his efficiency numbers on low volume, his 76% completion rate was still the sixth-highest among starters in Week 1, and the fourth-highest among QBs with more than 20 attempts. I wouldn't advise making Cousins your weekly QB1, sure, but if you play on a 2QB league, or are streaming the position, you can do much worse than having the Viking on your roster even as a reserve and plug-and-play option whenever you need a warm body.

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