Why former Cowboys’ Micah Parsons and Trevon Diggs likely won’t play together in Green Bay

Despite leading 21-3 in the first half, the Green Bay Packers fell victim to an epic Chicago Bears comeback and were bounced from the wild card round, 31-27. This is great news for the Dallas Cowboys, as the Packers’ loss secured them the 20th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft courtesy of the Micah Parsons trade. Had the Packers won, that pick would have slid down to 25, and potentially even worse if Green Bay kept winning. Fortunately, that’s no longer a concern, and the Cowboys will now have two top 20 picks for the first time since 2005, when they drafted an eventual Hall of Fame edge rusher.

While the first-round exit helps the Cowboys, it’s an unfortunate result for the Packers. Their team suffered a huge blow when Parsons tore his ACL against the Denver Broncos in Week 15. The Packers entered that week with a 9-3-1 record and were leading late in the third quarter before Parsons left the game. Sadly, they lost that game and went on a five-game losing streak, culminating with the wild card loss against the Bears on Saturday.

The Packers won’t have a first-round pick in each of the next two years, and the cheaper fifth-year option season of Parsons is now over. Going forward, Parsons will be expensive. Additionally, this undersized edge rusher is now coming off two straight seasons where he was hurt, and will be coming off an ACL injury which will require plenty of rehab to return to his unique athletic abilities.

Speaking of a former Cowboys player with an ACL injury, the Packers claimed cornerback Trevon Diggs off waivers after he was released by Dallas at the end of December. The marriage between Diggs and the Cowboys was a tumultuous one that contained many levels, including but not limited to…

• Not completing his rehab at the Cowboys facility, resulting in a $500,000 de-escalator
• He suffered a mysterious concussion that may or may not have something to do with a stripper pole
• He wasn’t activated from IR because he had poor practices and wasn’t following the direction of the coaches
• After the Christmas game, he was denied permission to stay in Washington, but did so anyway

Combine all of that with him having one of the worst performances in the league by a corner, and it’s easy to understand why the Cowboys cut ties with him. Physically, he wasn’t a good player, and mentally, he was a huge headache.

But one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure, according to a fairy tale written in 1860 (thanks, Wikipedia), and that is what the Packers are hoping when it comes to Diggs. Maybe the Cowboys’ defensive coaching staff was just so toxic that it turned a once-talented corner into a hot mess of a corner? That’s a possible scenario. After all, the entire secondary of the Cowboys was bad, not just Diggs.

But there’s also a possibility that Diggs might not be good anymore. Maybe...