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The Green Bay Packers are ready to make some noise when the 2025 NFL season kicks off in a few weeks. Green Bay had a solid 2024 campaign, winning 11 games. But they just so happened to play in the NFC North alongside two teams that won 14+ games. Sometimes, the NFL just comes down to luck.
The Packers attacked the 2025 offseason with the tenacity of a team that wants to take that next step. Green Bay added some key pieces, namely CB Nate Hobbs and G Aaron Banks, during NFL free agency. They even broke from their usual strategy and drafted WR Matthew Golden in the first round.
These are all steps in the right direction. But they may not be enough to get the Packers back to the postseason in 2025.
The Packers have been good, not great, for a long time now. It feels like Green Bay could use one superstar player to put themselves over the hump.
If that happens, the Packers could become a frightening team in the NFC.
Below we will explore one last-minute trade the Packers need to pull off before Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season.
Yes, let’s get into it. The Packers need to trade for Micah Parsons.
Here are my hypothetical trade terms before we get into any analysis:
Packers receive:
Cowboys receive:
I mean it when I say that the Packers need to pay whatever it takes to acquire Parsons.
It is extremely rare that a player of Parsons’ caliber is on the trade block. Dallas may not want to trade Parsons, but he does not want to be in Dallas anymore.
To simply the matter, the addition of Parsons alone could have a cascading impact on Green Bay’s defense. That should have Green Bay’s front office open to making a major splash for a superstar player.
And I’m not the only one who thinks this is a possibility.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport believes the Packers are a serious trade suitor for Parsons.
“I would expect that the Packers would be among the teams interested. And I would say I would expect that the Packers would be among the teams really interested,” Rapoport said on ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ on Monday. “They have paid Jordan Love, they have a bunch of really good young players…but they have money to spend, and they are really good. So that’s the kind of team that I would say if Micah was going to be traded, that he’d be going to because it’s like, ‘We need one final piece, this guy is an absolute dog, he’s worth all the money, so pay him all the money.’ God only knows what [David] Mulugheta would make that contract; it’d be all of it. But it’d be worth...
