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Dallas Cowboys face a gigantic story that goes into the 2025 season, and it has to do with locking one of the best defensive players the team has had in a long time.
Micah Parsons enters the last year of her rookie deal. He has recorded 256 tackles, 63 tackles for a loss and 52.5 sacks in 63 career games. He has been one of the best edgerushers in the NFL since entering the league in 2021.
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Stephen Jones, Left, Dallas Cowboys co -owner, CEO Vice President, CEO and Director of Player Staff, speaks to journalists such as Jerry Jones, Cowboy’s owner, president and general manager, listening to a news conference to open training camp on Monday 21 July 21, 2025 in Oxnard, California. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
So the question is, why shouldn’t he be paid?
Cowboys EVP and CEO Stephen Jones offered his two cents in the case as fans have hecked his father, Jerry Jones, to pay Parsons.
“It doesn’t change anything,” Stephen Jones said of the fans’ heckling via the athletic. “We will also pay Micah. He must want to be paid.”
Top defensive players like Myles Garrett and TJ Watt received their big money-wage days during the high season, and it looks like Parsons would be next in line. Dallas also expanded the tight end Jake Ferguson and defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa during the high season.
Dallas Cowboys defensive than Micah Parsons speaks to journalists after training camp on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 in Oxnard, California. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Parsons has been vocals this season about his contract and said in June that a delay in signing him ultimately costs the team more. He hinted at these offers when he discussed his thoughts last week and said he wanted cowboys to have the “same type of energy” as other organizations that locked their star’s defenders.
“If they don’t want me here, they don’t want me here,” Parsons said through the New York Post. “I go around in my business. I understand the nature of the business. As I said, as long as I am here and under contract, I have to do what I have to do to perform at the highest level. But if this is the end, this is the end.”
“I just don’t understand,” Parsons added about his situation.
Dallas Cowboys defensive than Micah Parsons goes on the field during training camp on Saturday, July 26, 2025 in Oxnard, California. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Parsons is not a team-out player right now as he has been to Dallas’ camp. However, he has not been a participant in full practice due to posterior density.
