{"id":349828,"date":"2025-09-07T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/349828\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:46:11","slug":"why-packers-limited-micah-parsons-against-lions-in-week-1-explaining-green-bays-training-camp-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/349828\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Packers limited Micah Parsons against Lions in Week 1: Explaining Green Bay’s ‘training camp’ plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green Bay Packers<\/a> are taking things somewhat slowly<\/a>\u00a0with Micah Parsons<\/a> in Sunday’s opener against the Detroit Lions<\/a>. That decision is a product of getting the pass rusher up to speed. According to NFL<\/a> Network’s Ian Rapoport, the team does not want to rush the multi-time All-Pro back in a full-time, every-down capacity until his body’s ready.<\/p>\n

Parsons will be in the lineup against Green Bay’s NFC rival Sunday, eager to produce in his debut, however.<\/p>\n

“He’s going to be a little bit limited as far as his snaps go, but not because of his facet joint sprain in his back,” Rapoport said<\/a>. “My understanding is the Packers are going to basically use the next four weeks as essentially training camp, making sure his body is right. Expect him to rush the passer today.”<\/p>\n

The Packers listed Parsons as “limited” in this week’s practice report. CBS Sports’ Tracy Wolfson reported Parsons’ playing status for the weekend, previously relaying this his playing time was undetermined<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m still ramping up,” Parsons\u00a0said earlier this week<\/a>. “It’s a process of getting ready for football. Being out for six months, obviously, going through the tightness, the soreness, but I just got plenty of faith that this great training staff and the coaches are slowly getting me the plays and getting me things that I need if we decide to give me the green light out there. It’s completely up to the coaches, though.”<\/p>\n

Parsons\u00a0is dealing with an L4\/L5 facet joint sprain<\/a>\u00a0in his lower back. There’s a chance Parsons could need an epidural injection to deal with the discomfort at the start of the season.<\/p>\n

“We’re just going to see about that,” Parsons said. “Right now, we just took the steroid pack that I got from the Cowboys<\/a> last week, and we started that last week while I was getting treatment there. … We finished the pack and hopefully that works plus treatment to get me back to 100 [percent].”<\/p>\n

As part of his recent signing with the Packers<\/a>, Parsons inked a four-year, $188 million extension, the largest deal ($47 million annually) for a non-quarterback in NFL history. Parsons, who has recorded 52.5 sacks in four seasons, hopes to lead the Packers to their sixth postseason appearance in the last seven years.<\/p>\n

Reporting emerged this week that Green Bay had been eyeing defensive help throughout the offseason. Before landing Parsons, the Packers made an offer to Cincinnati<\/a> for edge Trey Hendrickson<\/a>. The Bengals<\/a> and Hendrickson agreed to a major contract revision last month following a lengthy and contentious deliberation process,\u00a0boosting the NFL’s reigning sacks leader’s annual salary<\/a>\u00a0from $14 million to $30 million in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers are taking things somewhat slowly\u00a0with Micah Parsons in Sunday’s opener against the Detroit Lions.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[257,7,345,26258,491,40264,52089,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-349828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-injuries","12":"tag-micah-parsons","13":"tag-micah-parsons-contract","14":"tag-micah-parsons-trade","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115164976791270476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349828","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=349828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}