Atlanta Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins is taking charge of his first training camp with the team, and he has already earned a pretty funny nickname from one of his teammates.
Cousins admitted he has a sense of humor that does not necessarily land with his teammates, as he occasionally references movies that most of his younger teammates have not even seen. That, combined with his organized trips to chain restaurants, has led tight end Kyle Pitts to dub Cousins “Superdad.”
“He commands the room, gets everybody’s attention. That’s what you need,” Pitts said, via Jay Busbee of Yahoo Sports. “He can joke when he wants to, but he’s serious when he needs to be.”
Despite — or perhaps because of — his mannerisms, Cousins appears to be winning his Falcons teammates over. He may have been even more motivated to do so by the team’s NFL Draft decision, which does not appear to be weighing on his mind too much.
Cousins turns 36 in August. Many of his teammates are over a decade younger than he is, but he is finding ways to connect with them anyway. Some of that seems to be from simply leaning into his age.
