Steelers Now
Dallas Cowboys All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons reiterated during an interview with former Steelers cornerback Bryant McFadden at Super Bowl media row that he wouldn’t mind playing for the Steelers.
“I said if I ever returned home, it was going to Pittsburgh,” Parsons said after McFadden told him he could see him in a Steelers uniform.
Parsons is from Harrisburg and starred at Penn State before being selected in the first round by the Cowboys in the 2021 NFL Draft.
Talking with reporters this past summer, Parsons said he wants to remain a Cowboy, but if he left the team to ‘go home,’ he would head to the Steelers, not the Philadelphia Eagles, due to Mike Tomlin. Parsons added ‘hypothetically’ to that statement, according to Clarence Hill, meaning that he does expect that to come to fruition. But if there was a scenario where he would leave the Cowboys, it seems the Steelers would be that team.
Parsons is heading into a contract year in 2025 and it’s expected that he’ll receive a massive payday from Dallas. So any hopes of him playing in the Black and Gold will have to wait.
Parsons said in December that he doesn’t need the Cowboys to pay him $40 million or to become the NFL’s highest-paid defensive player. “It would be nice to be surrounded by good players. Players are going to help you win championships. I want to keep as many guys as possible. … I want to work with them.”
A Parsons combination with T.J. Watt would be lethal, but it most likely will never come to fruition. Parsons, who’s never shy to express his opinion, threw shade at Watt again this past week. He still won’t call Watt a top 5 pure pass rusher in the NFL. Parsons said the exact same thing last year at Super Bowl media row.
“You said a pure pass rusher,” Parsons told Zach Gelb of CBS Sports in New Orleans. “If you look at what I do, what Myles do, we all move around. I play right tackle, I play nose, I play left guard, right guard. If you talk about pure pass rushers, it’s probably a few of us that are in a league of our own, and everyone else is pretty much just high-end rushers. They don’t got versatility. They don’t move around. They don’t create matchups.”
The Steelers did a poor job of scheming Watt for better matchups in 2024. Watt was chipped on the highest percentage of snaps of any player in the league this season. He did so while rushing 546 times as the Steelers’ left outside linebacker or defensive end and just eight times anywhere else.
“He is gonna be a Hall of Famer one day,” Parsons said about Watt. “But what I say where the league’s at now, pure pass rusher. I mean, come on bro. I don’t even think it’s close.”
