The Raiders arguably could have driven a harder bargain over the trade that sent quarterback Kirk Cousins back to the Vikings. Vikings safety Jakobe Thomas could have driven a harder bargain over the return of Cousins’s preferred number.
Thomas told reporters that he gave Cousins No. 8 without payment.
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“No money needed,” Thomas said, via Ben Goessling of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “I just need him to come here and win games. A lot of fans have his jersey anyway, so they could pull him out of the closet and put him back on. So that’s all it is. Kirko’s got a lot more memories and history in that number than I do, and it’s rightfully his. So I just gave it back to his rightful owner.”
Thomas moved to No. 6, the jersey number he wore at Middle Tennessee State.
It makes sense. Thomas, a third-round pick out of Miami in April, has yet to be active for a regular-season game. Cousins is returning with the goal of winning a lot of games.
Starting with Sunday at Lambeau Field, the site of the final game of his first stint with the Vikings.
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