Dallas Cowboys trade Mika Parsons to the Green Bay Packers
USA Today Sports’ Tyler Dragon breaks down the blockbuster trade between the Cowboys and Packers sending the Micah Parsons to Green Bay.
Sports Pulse
- The Cowboys traded perhaps their best player, Mika Parsons, for two first rounds and a pro bowler.
- When Parsons joins the Packers, he also cut his record deal.
- Dallas owner Jerry Jones could face even more questions than he did for balance this summer.
When I thought Mika Parsons would become the star of the latest Dallas Cowboys, he literally got a figurative – nine digit extension…
When Dallas owner Jerry Jones loses negotiations with one of his premier players, he decides to take another bath…
When you think the latest NFL superstar holds out, holds in, I’ll hurt, I’ll exchange me, now you’ll just pay me playbook for wealth and get his bag…
When you assume everything that unfolds as it has so many NFL quarters often have – especially North Texas – Jones and “American team” Parsons ship Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, many of America actually loved them, and have been generally associated over the past 30 years.
Hoo ‘Boys!
Naturally, a transaction of this scale will soon help to dissect and declare who won and lost.
winner
Mika Parsons
As he waited and waited in Frisco, Texas and Oxnard, California, he eventually became disillusioned with Jones and his typically polarizing negotiation rhetoric, and wanted to reveal it in trade demand. Surprisingly, Parsons not only embraced his wish, but was moved to a better team, and according to reports, he was caught up in a record four-year, $188 million contract with a guaranteed $136 million. Currently set to make $47 million a year, Parsons not only resets his non-quarterly contract scale several digits, but has surpassed the recently extended TJ Watts.
David Murgetta
It’s amazing how good agents can play players when an NFL team actually invites him into the process.
Green Bay Packers
USA Today Sports had already predicted them as the 2025 NFC champions. – And their Super Bowl odds only get significantly shorter from here. Thanks to its stability and its approach to drafting and development, GM Brian Gutekunst and coach Matt LaFleur were generally hugging. However, Parsons’ arrival will further disrupt the opponents of the team, who finished eighth in the league with 45 sacks last season.
Aidan Hutchinson
The Detroit Lions star could be the next pass rush to get paid. He almost certainly won’t cut $47 million, but the big deal for Parsons should help Hutchinson’s cause every time he gets mad at the table.
Trey Hendrickson
Cincinnati Bengals Star – It is set to reach just around $30 million in 2025, but it could also benefit from the Parsons atrium. If Cincy did that route, Hendrickson would win at least $36 million in franchise tags in 2026, but that number could rise as the pass rush pay scale continues to explode, and Parsons will take it to another level. Apart from that, Hendrickson will almost certainly be leading more than $40 million a year from the team that signed him in March next year.
Philadelphia Eagles
Next Thursday night, the regular season kickoff game against the Cowboys is beginning to look like a Super Bowl Champion speed bump where there appears to be only one legitimate challenger (Washington) in NFC East. No team has won a division in back-to-back seasons since the Eagles sat at the summit from 2001-04, but it’s even more difficult to bet on them.
NBC
On September 28th, the Cowboys Packers’ Sunday Night Football. Legal Chance This is the best regular season game of all time, given that this subplot has been added to what is already a match between the two most popular clubs.
loser
Jerry Jones
Certainly, you’ll get two first-round picks – although you’re likely to land behind round one, there’s nothing frontline player like the Pro Bowl defensive lineman. I also have a cowboy Many Now that Parsons doesn’t take up a significant portion, as QB Dak Prescott and WR Ceedee Lamb have already done, there’s a more pay cap to import and pay other players.
But man. Jones literally just stomps out his best player, which also sends a bad message to the guys currently in the locker room and those who might consider joining it. And given that his summer shenanigans led to this outcome, fans find it hard to believe that Jones will continue to ask him to abandon his de facto general manager duties… he’s not to hear. And if players like Heck, Laremy Tunsil and Jamal Adams have won two first rounds in recent years, did Jones really score the biggest player’s return that could be rounded out as a generational pass rusher? Regardless of the shape the Clark trio and his two future teammates take, it is highly feasible and they don’t actually fill in the void left by Parsons from a production or public relations perspective.
Recently paid pass rush
Watt of the Steelers, Miles Garrett of the Browns, Daniel Hunter of the Texans, Max Crosby of the Raiders all signed at least $35 million this offseason, and at least $40 million for Watt and Garrett’s case. Oops?
Kenny Clark
He quietly gave the Packers nine really good seasons, and his 10th was full of possibilities – sorry, man.
Brian Schottenheimer
Being a rookie head coach is tough enough without losing his best player a week before the start of his inauguration season. However, there is usually hope around the cowboy, but perhaps Schottenheimer (51) enjoys at least a more measured period of bounty as Dallas clearly changes to what is adjacent to the reconstruction mode and retool mode.
Dallas fans
First, Luka, then Mika. But hey, the Mavericks got caught up in the Cooper Flag, Y’all – maybe the NFL script will offer the Cowboys manning the arch at the top of next year’s draft? right?
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