Todd ArcherMar 30, 2025, 02:33 PM ET
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- Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has lined the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Negotiations between the Dallas Cowboys and All-Professional move rusher Micah Parsons are within the early phases, however government vp Stephen Jones mentioned he feels “just right” concerning the route of the talks.
Parsons, who is ready to play this season at the fifth-year choice of his rookie deal, has had conversations with proprietor and common supervisor Jerry Jones in addition to Stephen Jones inside the previous couple of weeks. On the NFL scouting mix in February, the Cowboys met with Parsons’ agent, David Mulugheta.
“I do not wish to get into any main points,” Stephen Jones mentioned from The Breakers in Palm Seashore, Florida, on Sunday ahead of the once a year league assembly begins Monday. “It isn’t truthful for any one, as opposed to we’ve got were given an ideal running dating with Micah and suppose the arena of him. Like I have mentioned, we’ve got had just right visits with him and be ok with the place we are headed.”
Because the mix, the Las Vegas Raiders signed move rusher Maxx Crosby to a three-year, $106.5 million extension that incorporates $91.5 million assured. The Cleveland Browns in brief made Myles Garrett the highest-paid non-quarterback with an extension that averages $40 million and contains $123.5 million assured ahead of the Cincinnati Bengals signed huge receiver Ja’Marr Chase to a four-year, $161 million deal that incorporates $112 million assured.
Parsons could make a case to be the highest-paid non-quarterback. Parsons and Corridor of Famer Reggie White are the one gamers to document a minimum of 12 sacks in each and every in their first 4 seasons. Regardless of lacking 4 video games with a prime ankle sprain final season, Parsons completed 5th within the NFL with 12 sacks. He tied for essentially the most multisack video games within the NFL final 12 months with 5, and his 18 multisack video games in his profession are the second one maximum since 2021, at the back of handiest T.J. Watt, who has recorded 19 for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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A primary-round select in 2021, Parsons has recorded 52.5 sacks in his first 4 seasons. Most effective White (70), Derrick Thomas (58), J.J. Watt (57) and DeMarcus Ware (53.5) have had extra since sacks changed into an reliable stat in 1982.
Parsons mentioned overdue final season that he does no longer wish to be the highest-paid defensive participant within the recreation, however that used to be ahead of the new offers larger the marketplace.
Ultimate 12 months, the Cowboys made Dak Prescott the highest-paid quarterback with a four-year, $240 million deal and made CeeDee Lamb the then-second-highest paid receiver at $34 million in keeping with season. Lamb didn’t signal his deal till August, lacking all the offseason program and maximum of coaching camp. A part of the explanation used to be the Cowboys short of to look the result of different talks, specifically with Minnesota Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson, who signed a deal averaging $35 million.
Stephen Jones declined to speak about whether or not the Crosby and Garrett offers set a marketplace for Parsons.
“Like I mentioned, I am not going to get into any element on the place issues are, and the way a long way alongside we’re or the rest like that,” Jones mentioned. “It isn’t productive.”
Jones did attempt to squash communicate that the Cowboys wait too lengthy to get offers accomplished with their celebrity gamers, which finally ends up costing them extra money ultimately.
“We have now accomplished the early ahead of, and we’ve got waited till the top to do them,” Jones mentioned. “Numerous it is only the negotiation itself. A few of them take longer than others. And we put about 0 credibility or credence into other folks pronouncing you wait too lengthy.”
