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NFL training campy hasn’t moreover started yet, and play speculation has already begun pinch nan Dallas Cowboys.
Cowboys squad proprietor and wide head Jerry Jones said pinch reporters connected Monday, and arsenic he has successful nan past, he dropped immoderate arguable worldly that prima protect extremity Micah Parsons didn’t look to like.
Jones said he wasn’t disappointment pinch really nan existent statement negotiations pinch Parsons are going, adding that he is "appreciative" of nan separator rusher being successful campy pinch them going on.
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Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) walks onto nan section during nan first 4th against nan Carolina Panthers astatine Bank of America Stadium Dec. 15, 2024 successful Charlotte, North Carolina. (Jim Dedmon/Imagn Images)
However, Jones randomly took a changeable astatine Parsons, saying that moreover if they do find nan correct numbers successful nan deal, it doesn’t mean they will person him connected nan field. Jones said that Parsons was wounded six games past season, though he was only retired 4 owed to injury.
Jones besides brought up backmost Dak Prescott, nan highest-paid astatine nan position successful nan convention aft signing an hold earlier nan 2024 season, who played conscionable 8 games past twelvemonth owed to injury.
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J.J. Watt, nan ex-Houston Texans awesome walk rusher, took to societal media to bark backmost astatine Jones, and Parsons retweeted it connected Monday.
"Anytime you tin publically return a excavation astatine your prima backmost and your prima walk rusher simultaneously, correct earlier nan play begins, you conscionable gotta return it…" Watt wrote connected X, sarcastically.
"Nothing makes guys want to conflict for you much than proceeding really upset you are that they sewage wounded while fighting for you."
Since entering nan NFL arsenic nan 12th wide prime to nan Cowboys successful 2021, Parsons has racked up 52.5 sacks complete 63 games, which includes a 12-sack play successful 2024. He besides has 63 tackles for loss, 112 backmost hits and 9 forced fumbles complete that span.

Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones speaks to nan media astatine a property convention astatine nan Star. (Tim Heitman/Imagn Images)
Parsons has cemented himself arsenic 1 of nan champion separator rushers successful nan sport, and he’s looking to beryllium paid arsenic such.
The Cowboys, meanwhile, shelled retired Prescott’s statement on pinch prima wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, whose statement is nan third-highest successful nan convention astatine $34 cardinal per season.
Off nan edge, Pittsburgh Steelers prima T.J. Watt, arguably nan champion protect subordinate successful nan league, conscionable sewage paid $41 cardinal per play complete nan adjacent 3 years, while Cleveland Browns stud Myles Garrett is conscionable down him astatine $40 cardinal per season. With Houston Texans’ Danielle Hunter making complete $34 cardinal per season, and sitting third-highest down Garrett and Watt aft tallying 45 sacks since 2021, Parsons is apt looking for a statement supra his.

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) walks connected nan section during nan team's training campy astatine River Ridge Playing Fields connected July 25, 2024 successful Oxnard, California. (Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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It will beryllium telling to spot what nan Cowboys extremity up doing this preseason pinch Parsons, who will beryllium playing connected his fifth-year option. If a statement isn’t figured retired by nan commencement of nan adjacent convention year, Parsons will beryllium a free supplier unless he is franchise tagged.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.