{"id":328514,"date":"2025-08-30T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/328514\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:29:10","slug":"micah-parsons-trade-cam-newton-claims-dallas-cowboys-won-transaction-over-green-bay-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/328514\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons trade: Cam Newton claims Dallas Cowboys won transaction over Green Bay Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four hours later, the entire sports world is still coming to terms with Thursday afternoon\u2019s seismic preseason trade that sent two-time All-Pro linebacker Micah Parsons<\/a> from the Dallas Cowboys to the Green Bay Packers. <\/p>\n

That includes the crew on ESPN\u2019s mid-morning show First Take, where newly re-signed contributor and former NFL MVP Cam Newton<\/a> went against the grain and boldly declared Dallas owner Jerry Jones and the Cowboys as the winner of the trade. <\/p>\n

The Packers traded their next two first-round picks in the 2026 and 2027 NFL Drafts in addition to three-time Pro Bowl DT Kenny Clark <\/a>to the Cowboys to acquire Parsons, who is expected to sign an eye-popping four-year, $188 million deal that will make him the NFL\u2019s highest-paid non-quarterback with an average salary of $47 million annually<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, (Dallas) won the trade. Remove emotions, what I\u2019m saying is this: in order to be good in this league of the NFL, you need one thing, and that\u2019s talent. That\u2019s not to say that Micah Parsons isn\u2019t talented. But what I am saying is, if you do not have talent, what next do you need is acquisition ability to get talent. And that\u2019s what Jerry Jones did,\u201d Newton said Friday morning on First Take. \u201cHe has potentially four picks in the first round alone (over the next two drafts) as of today. We don\u2019t know what Kenny Clark is going to be. (But Jerry Jones) has made it abundantly clear, and said this: We want to stop the run. And, as great a player as Micah Parsons is, he\u2019s an edge rusher. If you know any type of defense in this league, the first thing they want to stop is the run (to) make the offense one-dimensional. All these things are formulas the Dallas Cowboys have said and implemented to insert moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the Dallas Cowboys got in return from Green Bay Packers<\/p>\n

Effectively, while Parsons will undoubtedly transform Green Bay\u2019s defense having recorded at least 12 sacks each of his first four seasons in the league, Newton believes Jones and the Cowboys will win the deal in the longterm with their ability to add multiple players that are more suited to Dallas\u2019 desire to become a more line-of-scrimmage team.<\/p>\n

Clark, the Packers\u2019 2016 first-round pick (No. 27 overall) out of\u00a0UCLA<\/a>, has made the Pro Bowl three times (2019, 2021, 2023) across his nine seasons in Green Bay. While he had a bit of a down year stat-wise in 2024, Clark has been among the Packers most reliable defenders and a stout playmaker in the middle of their defense for the better part of the last decade.<\/p>\n

That includes registering a career-high 7.5 sacks, two forced fumbles and three passes defended in 2023, the second of three straight seasons in which Clark started at least 18 games, including all 17 in the regular-season. Clark has 35 career sacks, seven forced fumbles, eight fumble returns and 417 total tackles in nine years in Green Bay.<\/p>\n

Parsons, meanwhile, provides the Packers far more pass rush potential off the edge, registering at least 12 sacks each of his first four NFL seasons after being selected by the Cowboys as the No. 12 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft out of\u00a0Penn State<\/a>. Parsons has 52.5 career sacks, 63 tackles for loss, nine forced fumbles, four fumble returns and 256 total tackles in four years in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-four hours later, the entire sports world is still coming to terms with Thursday afternoon\u2019s seismic preseason trade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,60255,15747,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-328514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kenny-clark-13-wilmer-amina-carter","14":"tag-micah-parsons-18-harrisburg","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115116544062616239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}