Kirk Cousins Suffers Ankle Injury, Leaves Vikings Game at Packers

Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins suffered a non-contact ankle injury in the fourth quarter Sunday at Green Bay.

Cousins planted as he surveyed the field on third-and-19 and came up gimpy. He protected the football as he was tackled by Kenny Clark for a sack with about 10 minutes remaining in the game. Minnesota ruled out Cousins during the ensuing Green Bay possession with an ankle injury, but the Vikings are fearful that further evaluation Monday will confirm an Achilles injury.

Rookie Jaren Hall finished the game for Cousins as Minnesota's defense delivered multiple stops to preserve a **24-10 victory**.

Vikings Head Coach Kevin O'Connell, who found the positives multiple times when his team opened his second season with three losses, balanced the potentially tremendous loss of Cousins within Minnesota's third consecutive win and fourth in five games to even its record at 4-4.

"Very, very excited about our team's performance. We made it a point at the start of this month, knowing we would have five opportunities in the month of October to reset our season, we've done that. We're 2-0 in the NFC North, a lot of good football out in front of this team," he said, "but I do want to start off and say, thinking about our quarterback, went out today again as he has for most of the 2023 season and played the quarterback position as well as anybody in our league and just continued to build and build and build.

"Currently he's being evaluated and will be, into tomorrow. We are fearing an Achilles injury," O'Connell added. "The severity of that, I do not know at this point, but that's what our fear is in the moment, and we'll confirm that as soon as possible. Thinking of Kirk, our locker room, every single player in our locker room, thinking about our leader, our guy right now. I'm just so proud of him, proud of the way he's played all season long.

"Whatever is the case, if we don't have him for one snap or for the duration of our season, that will not change the fact of what I believe Kirk Cousins, the level he played to this year and ultimately what he's meant to me and our organization, so thinking about him right now," O'Connell continued.