GREEN BAY — Kenny Clark was juggling just about every aspect of his life in the immediate aftermath of the Green Bay Packers-Dallas Cowboys trade that brought Micah Parsons to Titletown and sent Clark to Big D. 

Learning a new playbook and getting to know his new teammates and coaches upon his arrival at the Cowboys’ facility. Packing up his belongings and shipping them from Green Bay to suburban Dallas. Picking out a new place to live — by looking at pictures of houses in a realty app on his phone. Working through his feelings of being blindsided by the news while trying to calm down family members who were taking the news even worse than he did.

And, of course, trying to figure out the dilemma he knew he’d be facing after Sunday’s Packers-Cowboys matchup at AT&T Stadium: Who would get his No. 95 Cowboys jersey after the game.

Although Clark has figured out all of the other aforementioned life-changing challenges, he’s still not 100% set on his jersey plan, having learned shortly after the trade that it would very much be in demand.

Clark said Thursday that he’s leaning toward giving it to defensive end Rashan Gary — Gary asked first and he has the most seniority — but he knows that’ll disappoint young defensive linemen Devonte Wyatt, Colby Wooden, Karl Brooks, Warren Brinson and Nazir Stackhouse.

“Man, I don’t know,” Clark said during a Zoom call with Wisconsin reporters after practice Thursday. “I know ‘RG’ had asked me the first day I got traded, and then Colby called me the other day and was talking me up about it.

“I don’t know, man. If I could get a jersey to all of them, I would, you know what I’m saying. I don’t know. It’s going to be interesting. I’ll probably give it to RG or something, the oldest guy.”

Possibly the only ex-teammate who doesn’t want to swap with Clark postgame is Packers center Elgton Jenkins, who’ll be going head-to-head with him during the game after working against each other in practice for more than six years — including during training camp as Jenkins transitioned from guard.

“I don’t want that Cowboys junk. I want that [No.] 97 Green Bay,” Jenkins said, smiling. “Hopefully he’s got one of them in the closet for me.”

Asked about Jenkins’ request, Clark laughed.

“I’m surprised I haven’t gotten ‘E’ a jersey. I definitely got one for him, though,” Clark said. “I’m going to send him one.”

Jenkins has already gotten plenty from Clark in the form of advice, insight and competition. With his move to center full-time this season, Jenkins and Clark would chop it up after each practice in training camp, with Jenkins looking for tips.

“We had so many conversations on the things that I see that he could get better at and things that I could get better at that he told me,” said Jenkins, who has been frustrated by his play the first three games.  

“It’s going to be interesting, honestly. This is probably my first time playing against somebody that I practiced with six, seven years, and now I’m playing against him. I know everything that he probably thinks is going to work, and I know things that he does that do work. He definitely knows things that I do that work, too.”

Like he did with Jenkins, Clark gave his fellow defensive linemen plenty of advice over the years, too — “Those guys, I taught them everything I knew,” Clark said — and he’s been keeping an eye on them ever since the trade.

They’ve been doing the same, watching Clark record 10 tackles and a sack in the first three weeks while stabilizing the Cowboys’ inconsistent run defense.

Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley has been interested, too, thankful for how Clark gave him instant credibility as the new boss of the defense last year by embracing his scheme and approach.

“Coming from being a college head coach to back to the NFL to being a coordinator again, you never quite know what you’re going to get,” Hafley said Thursday. “And he was the vet, and just having him around, being able to lean on him, him being such an unbelievable pro, an unbelievable person and the buy-in — I’ll forever be grateful for that. He made it a very easy situation, and there’s just not many guys out there like him.

“I’m a huge Kenny Clark fan. Always will be.”

What Clark wasn’t a big fan of was how his tenure in Green Bay ended — with an out-of-the-blue phone call from general manager Brian Gutekunst after practice on Aug. 28.

“I mean, I was shocked, honestly,” Clark recalled. “We had just had practice, and I literally had just gotten off the field. I’m thinking I’m just going home to relax and go recover, and I get the call.

“That’s probably the most shocked I’ve ever been, as far as a phone call. I knew once Gutey called me, I knew it was something. He didn’t just call me for no reason. I didn’t understand [that], when you get the call, just everything happens so fast.”

While Clark settled in as best he could — he finally moved out of a hotel and into a house after the Cowboys’ Week 2 win over the New York Giants — he was also trying to get his family members to accept the seismic change in his life and their lives, despite their disappointment.

“My family, they took it a lot harder than I did. I think just based off how much I really done for the [Packers] organization, I know my mom (Leslie) was hot. My mom was so hot,” Clark recounted. “My girl and my brothers, they were all pretty emotional about it.

“I just had to explain to them that everybody at some point get this call — whether it’s you’re getting cut, you’re getting traded or whatever the case may be. Everybody at some point gets the call.”

And while Clark certainly wasn’t expecting that call, he knows that — after arriving as a 20-year-old rookie first-round pick from UCLA in 2016 and now set to turn 30 next month — he left Titletown having made a difference.

“I just want to be remembered for being me. Everybody know what I brought to that team — my play style, my violence, just the level of consistency that I had,” Clark said.

“I don’t remember a day that I didn’t love coming into work. This is just what I love to do. I love to play football. I loved being around the guys. I built a lot of bonds with those guys. Most definitely, I want to be remembered for all that.”

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