No, Kirk Cousins is not on track to be a Hall of Famer (yet)

A case for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins making the Pro Football Hall of Fame one day was recently made, and it couldn't be further from the truth.

During his NFL career, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has finished a season with at least 4,000 passing yards and 25 passing touchdowns seven times. Since 2015, no other quarterback in the league has accomplished this more than Cousins.

At first glance, this seems like an impressive feat. But it actually speaks more about Cousins' consistency than anything else.

Because if you keep the passing yards requirement at 4,000 yards and bump the passing touchdowns requirement up to 35, then Cousins has had only one of these seasons since 2015, unlike Josh Allen, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, and Patrick Mahomes, who have all thrown for at least 4,000 yards and 35 touchdowns in a season three times or more since 2015.

Consistency is not enough to get Minnesota Vikings QB Kirk Cousins in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

NFLSpinZone.com's Lou Scataglia is someone who believes Cousins could end up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame if he keeps up his consistent level of play.

Here's what Scataglia wrote.

"If Kirk Cousins can sustain his current level of efficiency for perhaps three or four more seasons, he’ll likely be in the top 10 of every major QB category. To me, that is the mark of a Hall of Famer.

I think the durability, longevity, consistency, etc. argument is perfectly valid to use for players who may not have a ton of personal awards."

There are only 29 quarterbacks in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That translates to just under 10 percent of all the players that are currently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Of these 29 quarterbacks, 25 of them earned at least one First-Team All-Pro selection in their careers, and of the 22 that played during the Super Bowl era (since 1966), 15 of them were part of a Super Bowl-winning team.

So even though Scataglia believes durability, longevity, and consistency are enough to get a player without a lot of personal awards into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the actual voters that give out the gold jackets disagree.

And when it comes to Cousins, he has never earned a single First-Team All-Pro selection, and he's never been a member of a team that has won a Super Bowl.

The quarterbacks with a bronze bust in Canton, Ohio are some of the best signal-callers from their era of the sport. Cousins isn't even one of the 10 best quarterbacks from his era.

The Vikings starter has consistent numbers, but his numbers are hardly ever great, they're just above average for the era that he's playing in.

When using the Pro Football Reference Hall of Fame Monitor, Cousins is currently sitting with a 43.54 rating. This rating currently ranks 63rd among every quarterback that has ever played a snap in the NFL. Impressive, but not Hall of Fame worthy since the average rating for a Hall of Fame quarterback is 103.58.

Players with a similar Hall of Fame Monitor rating to Cousins include Brad Johnson, Mark Brunell, Alex Smith, Tony Romo, Trent Green, and Jeff Garcia. All quarterbacks who played for a while in the NFL at an above-average level, but not at a Hall of Fame level.

Could Cousins go out and play out of his mind and win multiple Super Bowls during the next few seasons? Sure, anything is possible. Are the chances very low that this will actually happen? Yes, yes they are.

So until he proves otherwise, Cousins will likely just remain in the group with Alex Smith and Tony Romo as guys that were better than more than half of the quarterbacks in the NFL during their careers, but still not good enough to get their own bronze bust in Canton.