LeRoy Butler compares the Micah Parsons trade to Reggie White signing
In his weekly show with Tom Silverstein, taped the day before the trade went down, LeRoy Butler compares this deal with the one that brought Reggie White to the Packers.
Like almost every Wisconsin native who grew up following the Green Bay Packers, former Wisconsin and NFL star J.J. Watt wanted to make sure this wasn’t April Fool’s Day in August or that “Parsons packing for Green Bay” wasn’t a satirical headline in “The Onion.”
The impossible dream of Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst pulling off a trade for star edge rusher Micah Parsons couldn’t actually be real, could it?
Yes, it could, and indeed, it is.
Keep refreshing and reading to make sure it’s real.
No wayyyyyyy.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) August 28, 2025
And the Packers signed Parsons to a four-year contract worth $188 million? Thats a healthy sum of green and gold.
🚨🚨LEGENDARY🚨🚨#PACKERS LB MICAH PARSONS WILL MAKE MORE THAN 125 THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY FOR THE FOUR YEARS.
Per second: $1.49
Per minute: $89.54
Per hour: $5,372
Per day: $128,931
Per week: $903,846
Per month: $3,916,666
MICAH AND HIS FAMILY ARE SET FOR LIFE.
😱😱😱 pic.twitter.com/GsUnflCYlf
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) August 28, 2025
As you can probably guess, participants in the social media game had plenty to say about Gutekunst’s all-in move to acquire Parsons from the Dallas Cowboys.
This is a Lambeau Leap that Hollywood couldn’t have scripted better.
(OK, like the “Draft Day” movie, perhaps it would be better if the Packers somehow got those two first-round picks back).
But let’s get back to the blockbuster of a box office move the Packers and their fans think this can be. Here’s more social media reaction to the super-sized trade by the NFL’s smallest market.
Quarterback Jordan Love immediately warmed up to Parsons chasing opposing quarterbacks:
And Packers fans are ready to build sports media personality, Packers fan and Parsons trade-pusher Kay Adams a statue.
And Parsons is a franchise player, so get ready for video game numbers.