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The Dallas Cowboys traded star defensive end Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers before the start of the 2025 NFL season.
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But according to Parsons, he was very close to becoming a member of the Philadelphia Eagles before he was ultimately shipped to Green Bay.
“To be honest with you, bro, it was very close. It was very close to being the Eagles. Before the Jaelen Phillips [trade], it was me,” Parsons said of a trade to the Eagles on a recent episode of his podcast.
Parsons says he nixed the potential trade to Philadelphia because it would have required the Eagles to part ways stud defensive tackle Jalen Carter, who Parsons would have wanted to play alongside.
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“Yeah, it was me and I was really about to come but there was one person that I had to play with that if he was gone I did not want to be there, and that was Jalen Carter,” Parsons said.
“They wanted a defensive tackle. And they wanted to trade me plus some picks. I don’t really care about the picks, but I’m coming to play next to J.C., you feel me? … So, sorry, Cowboys fans. It really almost happened.”
It’s fair to wonder exactly how accurate this account of the situation is, or if the Cowboys would have actually traded Parsons to another team in the NFC East. But, if Parsons is to be believed, it certainly sounds like he was pretty close to becoming an Eagle.
That would have been something that probably wouldn’t have sat well with Cowboys fans. Losing Parsons is one thing, but losing him to a divisional rival that you have to play twice a season would be like salt in the wound.
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