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When Kirk Cousins gave his introductory news conference as a member of the Atlanta Falcons, he talked about the good people in the organization that he’d talked and met with over the past day or two.
The problem with that is no member of an NFL team is allowed to contact a member of another team- which Cousins was until the official start of the new league year. A limited exception was made by the league- the so called ‘legal tampering period’ or two days before the start of the new league year- where teams are allowed to contact the registered agents of impending free agents in order to negotiate a contract. But contact is limited to the agent of the player, not the player himself, unless the player has no agent and is representing himself- which was not the case with Cousins.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/wi ... 141a0&ei=9Cousins admitted that he was in contract with the Atlanta Falcons head trainer, director of player personnel, and their Public Relations director during that press conference, which caused the league to open a tampering investigation the next day.
There are also reports from Atlanta Falcons tight-end Kyle Pitts that he was in contact with Cousins and attempting to recruit him weeks before the start of the new league year (which he later denied when the tampering question arose). As part of the investigation, the league will likely ask for phone/text records from Cousins and others implicated in the tampering allegations. They may also look into such things as when Cousins’ flight to Atlanta was booked as additional potential evidence of tampering.
It’s been about a month since the league announced its investigation into whether Cousins was tampered with, and the league may be at a point soon when they’ve reached a conclusion.
