If you haven’t already heard, the Green Bay Packers now retain the services of one Micah Parsons. He has been in the NFL for four years, so I wanted to take a look at how he has performed against the teams on the Packers’ schedule this season.
Of the 14 teams on the schedule this year, Parsons has faced 12 of them. The only two teams the Packers play this year that Parsons has not faced are the Cowboys (naturally) and the Steelers.
So let’s take a look at the Packers’ schedule through the lens of what Micah Parsons has done against them. I’ll mention the games played, then give his per-game averages. Was this basically just an excuse to post a bunch of Micah Parsons clips I’ve gathered over the past week? You betcha!
2 games, averaging 1.0 sacks, 1.5 QB Hits, 1.0 TFLs (Tackles for Loss), 19.6% Pressure Rate, 2.5 Quick Pressures
Week 2: Washington Commanders
8 games, averaging 1.3 sacks, 1.9 QB Hits, 1.1 TFLs, 20.1% Pressure Rate, 5.0 Quick Pressures
Week 3: at Cleveland Browns
1 game, averaging 1.0 sacks, 5.0 QB Hits, 1.0 TFLs, 18.8% Pressure Rate, 2.0 Quick Pressures
Week 4: at Dallas Cowboys
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Week 6: Cincinnati Bengals
2 games, averaging 1.0 sacks, 3.5 QB Hits, 1.0 TFLs, 21.1% Pressure Rate, 6.0 Quick Pressures
Week 7: at Arizona Cardinals
2 games, averaging 0.5 sacks, 1.5 QB Hits, 1.5 TFLs, 22.9% Pressure Rate, 3.5 Quick Pressures
Week 8: at Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 9: Carolina Panthers
3 games, averaging 1.8 sacks, 2.0 QB Hits, 1.7 TFLs, 30.0% Pressure Rate, 4.7 Quick Pressures
Week 10: Philadelphia Eagles
7 games, 0.7 sacks, 1.1 QB Hits, 0.9 TFLs, 18.5% Pressure Rate, 4.3 Quick Pressures
Week 11: at New York Giants
8 games, 0.6 sacks, 1.6 QB Hits, 0.8 TFLs, 16.2% Pressure Rate, 3.3 Quick Pressures
Week 12: Minnesota Vikings
2 games, averaging 1.0 sacks, 3.0 QB Hits, 2.5 TFLs, 27.0% Pressure Rate, 2.5 Quick Pressures
Week 13: at Detroit Lions
2 games, averaging 1.0 sacks, 1.5 QB Hits, 1.0 TFLs, 19.6% Pressure Rate, 2.5 Quick Pressures
1 game, averaging 0.0 sacks, 0.0 QB Hits, 0.0 TFLs, 15.0% Pressure Rate, 1.0 Quick Pressures
Week 15: at Denver Broncos
1 game, averaging 2.5 sacks, 3.0 QB Hits, 3.0 TFLs, 50.0% Pressure Rate, 3.0 Quick Pressures
Week 16: at Chicago Bears
1 game, averaging 0.0 sacks, 0.0 QB Hits, 0.0 TFLs, 15.0% Pressure Rate, 1.0 Quick Pressures
Week 17: Baltimore Ravens
1 game, averaging 0.0 sacks, 1.0 QB Hits, 0.0 TFLs, 26.7% Pressure Rate, 2.0 Quick Pressures
Week 18: at Minnesota Vikings
2 games, averaging 1.0 sacks, 3.0 QB Hits, 2.5 TFLs, 27.0% Pressure Rate, 2.5 Quick Pressures
For fun, let’s just take his per-game average for these games and think about what the 2025 numbers may look like. For the two teams he hasn’t faced, I just used his career averages (0.8 sacks, 1.8 QB Hits, 1.0 TFLs, 5.3 Pressures, 2.8 Quick Pressures). Under this extremely unscientific method, I’ve got Parsons with 15.1 sacks, 33.2 QB Pressures, 19.9 TFLs, 90.7 Pressures and 45.3 Quick Pressures.
If we want to focus on how he impacts the QB, we can look at Total Pressures by adding Sacks, QB Hits & Pressures.
By that quick-and-dirty metric (small sample size disclaimer and all that), Parsons’ toughest match-up is the Bears (-4.9 pressures per game compared to his career averages), and his most favorable match-up is the Bengals (+7.1 pressures per game compared to his career averages). On the whole, this slate of teams sees Parsons +4.2 in pressures over his career average.
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