{"id":749004,"date":"2026-02-13T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:23:20","slug":"micah-parsons-wants-packers-to-pursue-george-pickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749004\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons wants Packers to pursue George Pickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 12, 2026, 4:57 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Micah Parsons\/<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" data-autotag=\"7af2161d-a8dd-41a5-87e2-32eb5b028473\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> saga continues, with Parsons trying to recruit Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Cowboys just slapped the franchise tag on Pickens so they can negotiate with him and keep him from becoming a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As many already know, Parsons was traded from the Cowboys to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> just before the start of the 2025 season. The breakup between Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Parsons became ugly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Parsons wanted to stay with the Cowboys, but negotiations with Parsons&#8217; agent (who is Pickens&#8217; agent too) fell through. Now it appears Parsons is actively trying to recruit the wide receiver to join him in Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While at the Pro Bowl a few weeks ago, Parsons approached Pickens about coming to Green Bay on his podcast, asking, &#8220;You ready to be that green and gold?&#8221; to which Pickens laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Parsons had already recruited former Cowboys teammate Trevon Diggs to Green Bay after he was cut by the team, but he was later cut by the Packers as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With Pickens having had a very productive year for the Cowboys, accumulating almost 1,500 yards and nine touchdowns last season, he will likely stay in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 12, 2026, 4:57 p.m. ET The Micah Parsons\/Dallas Cowboys saga continues, with Parsons trying to recruit Cowboys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[95878,7,41,345,2514,2513,6,428,99115,99116,95882,96256,96253,95976,96167,95888,95895,95899,95883,99683,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-749004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers","16":"tag-sstssportsnfltouchdown","17":"tag-sstsntouchdown","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagdallas-cowboys","20":"tag-taggeorge-pickens","21":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","22":"tag-tagmicah-parsons","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-tagtrevon-diggs","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116062834973077743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749004","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=749004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}