Long gone are the days of Micah Parsons terrorizing the New York Giants and the NFC East. Come Thursday, the 26-year-old has officially been traded to the Green Bay Packers, as first reported by NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.
Blockbuster: The #Cowboys are trading Micah Parsons to the #Packers, who will sign him to a four-year, $188 million extension with $136M guaranteed, sources tell me, @RapSheet and @SlaterNFL.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) August 28, 2025
Parsons gets $47M a year on the deal by @DavidMulugheta and @AndreOdom of… pic.twitter.com/OnE6RUFfqP
Parsons and the Cowboys had been locked in a months-long contract standoff that kept getting uglier. After being cleared to return from a supposed back injury, Parsons declined, citing a “second opinion.” He never practiced again. He then requested a trade, and owner Jerry Jones, in all his (lack of) wisdom, turned a top-five defensive talent into a bargaining chip and shipped him off to the NFC North. Common sense is nowhere to be found.
The Packers and Parsons have reportedly agreed to a four-year, $188 million extension with $136 million guaranteed, making him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history. For the non-math people out there, that's $47 million per year.
Micah Parsons trade saves Giants fans from NFC East nightmare
So yeah. Pretty huge. And somehow, Dallas fumbled it all in glorious fashion. Talk about one of the dumbest decisions ever.
From a Giants fan lens, this outcome is a borderline miracle. At one point, the Eagles were considered frontrunners. FOX Sports even listed Philly and New England as the betting favorites outside Dallas to land him. Given how the Eagles poached Saquon Barkley, Azeez Ojulari, and Adoree’ Jackson in the last year and a half, the idea of Parsons joining that group was borderline apocalyptic.
But this? This is pure comedy. An absolute joke. The best player on the Cowboys, a two-time All-Pro and one-man wrecking crew against the Giants for years, is now a cheese head. He’s pairing with Rashan Gary and Lukas Van Ness on a sneaky-good up-and-coming Packers defense. But more importantly, he’s out of the division.
Parsons ends his Dallas career with 52.5 sacks in 63 games, and an owner who somehow fumbled it all for nothing but cap flexibility. Jones didn’t want to pay the face of his franchise, so now Green Bay will. And if that isn’t the most Jerry Jones thing ever, what is? Go Jerry.
Jerry Jones is the gift that keeps on giving. Hopefully, more of the Cowboys' top players get traded for no reason. Only Jerry can take an elite-level talent for granted like Parsons for granted. Legitimately, talk about an absolute collapse on a catastrophic level. This team is so directionless. Joke franchise.
Giants fans should be celebrating. Parsons is finally someone else’s problem. Start the parade.