Parsons led the Cowboys with 12.0 sacks in 2024 (no other player had 6.0 or more). No player who had five-plus sacks for the Cowboys in 2024 will play for them in Week 1.<\/p>\n
Parsons leads the NFL with 335 QB pressures since being drafted in 2021 despite ranking 30th in pass-rush snaps (1,585) during that timeframe, per Next Gen Stats. He has a 21.1 pressure percent in his career (also the highest since 2021, minimum 1,000 snaps).<\/p>\n
The above two paragraphs are the statistical way of saying: No duh, it will be easier to block the Cowboys without Parsons.<\/p>\n
Dante Fowler<\/a> came over from Washington last year and should take on a bigger role, even after thriving in a rotation with the Commanders. Second-round rookie Donovan Ezeiruaku<\/a> will be a player to watch Thursday night. He flashed during camp and should see increased responsibilities now that Parsons is out of the picture.<\/p>\n The Eagles perennially boast one of the best offensive lines in the league, even having to replace their starting right guard after Mekhi Becton<\/a> departed in free agency. Mailata allowed 1.5 sacks in 2024, per NGS (tied with Garett Bolles<\/a> and Tristan Wirfs<\/a> for fewest among 31 left tackles with 350-plus pass block snaps).<\/p>\n Even with the addition of Clark, the trenches battle on Thursday will tilt even more heavily toward Philly than it appeared a week ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parsons led the Cowboys with 12.0 sacks in 2024 (no other player had 6.0 or more). No player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1227,257,7,13945,88,609,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-333378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jordan-mailata","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115129779947271180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333378","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=333378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}