Cowboys Reportedly Open To Trade Offers For Disgruntled Star Micah Parsons

A week aft labeling immoderate waste and acquisition talk astir Micah Parsons “pure BS” Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones is reportedly consenting to perceive to offers for nan All-Pro walk rusher, ESPN reported connected Thursday.

Dallas are scheduled to footwear disconnected nan play adjacent Thursday astatine Philadelphia, and Parsons, 1 of nan champion players successful nan NFL, hasn’t been a subordinate successful a afloat believe since past season.

Parsons requested a waste and acquisition successful 1 of nan aggregate escalatory landmarks successful nan ongoing staredown pinch Jones complete his contract. The Cowboys person held patient that Parsons is nether statement and should beryllium connected nan section now and during nan 2025 regular play if he wants to reside a semipermanent deal.

Parsons played nan first 4 years of his profession pinch nan Cowboys. This season, he’s connected nan fifth-year action successful his rookie statement worthy $21.3m successful 2025. He reportedly revenge a grievance earlier this year, arguing he should beryllium viewed arsenic a linebacker – not a protect end. The action net for a linebacker is $24m.

Jones, who made clear he prefers to talk contracts straight pinch his players and not their agents, stated publically that he and Parsons agreed to nan parameters of a woody successful nan spring. ESPN pegged nan position of nan five-year hold astatine an mean of $40.5m per season.

The highest-paid protect subordinate successful position of mean yearly worth is Steelers walk rusher T.J. Watt ($41m). Browns protect extremity Myles Garrett signed a caller woody earlier this twelvemonth to summation his yearly mean salary to $40m.

A premium connected proven walk rushers guarantees nan asking value for nan 26-year-old Parsons will beryllium astronomical. The closest script successful caller years brought extracurricular linebacker Khalil Mack to nan Chicago Bears successful a 2018 waste and acquisition that fetched nan Raiders a wealth trove of draught picks: a brace of first-rounders, a third-round prime and a sixth-rounder. The Bears received Mack, past 27, a second-round prime and a conditional draught prime earlier signing him to a six-year statement worthy $141m.

Beyond nan team-exercised and afloat guaranteed statement action for 2025, nan Collective Bargaining Agreement allows Jones and nan Cowboys to usage nan franchise tag successful successive years (2026, 2027), which is nan good people down Jones’ mathematics that Parsons is nether squad power for nan adjacent 3 years.

Parsons appears to person soured connected nan thought of playing successful Dallas during a tumultuous period pinch his only pro shot employer to date. On 1 August, Parsons posted a connection to societal media that he “stayed quiet but again aft repeated shots astatine myself and each nan narratives I person made a reliable determination I nary longer want to play for nan Dallas Cowboys.”

More recently, he eliminated references and images containing nan Cowboys and their logo from his societal media accounts.

Parsons’ profiles successful his Twitter and Instagram pages some tout his Penn State inheritance pinch a “TBD” now successful spot of nan Cowboys arsenic his employer. And connected TikTok, he posted a video that contained a photograph assemblage of Parsons, successful his Cowboys uniform, that contained crippled photos that could person been taken arsenic nan All-Pro some waving goodbye and blowing kisses.

In nan inheritance played nan audio of words erstwhile spoken by retired NBA awesome Allen Iverson arsenic he discussed waste and acquisition rumors:

“Imma triumph wherever I go,” Iverson is heard saying. “Wherever I go, imma win. I don’t attraction wherever I go. I don’t springiness a damn what squad I spell to, imma win. Imma triumph regardless, it don’t matter.”