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The Dallas Cowboys do not seem too keen on trading Micah Parsons despite his trade request, but if they do, NFL insider Ian Rapoport thinks the Green Bay Packers would be an excellent fit.
Parsons and the Cowboys are still in a standoff over a contract extension, and with each passing day, it would appear likelier that Jerry Jones will try to get everything he can in a trade involving Parsons. And if that day comes, the Packers could be very high on the list.
“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 it because you’d get Micah Parsons.”
“I would expect that the Packers would be among the teams interested.”
“That’s the kind of team that I would say, if Micah was going to be traded, that he’d be going to.”
–@RapSheet on the Micah Parsons rumors via @PatMcAfeeShow pic.twitter.com/gllXYTPUUp
— CheeseheadTV (@cheeseheadtv) August 18, 2025
Notably, Mulugheta, Parsons’ agent, has effectively been ignored by Jones and the Cowboys’ front office. Jones has said in the past that he had not contacted Mulugheta because he prefers to negotiate directly with players. This is despite Parsons declaring nearly five months ago that he would not sign any deal in which Mulugheta had not been involved.
Parsons, wherever he signs, is likely to reset the market for defensive players with his next contract. A three-time All-Pro, Parsons is just 26 and sat back while Myles Garrett and then T.J. Watt signed for record-breaking deals worth more than $40 million annually. Parsons’ extension is expected to top both Garrett’s and Watt’s, although Parsons said earlier in the offseason that other players’ deals had no bearing on his.
Dallas plays its final game of the preseason on Friday against the Atlanta Falcons. The Cowboys open the season on Sept. 4 vs. the Philadelphia Eagles.
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