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Micah Parsons was chasing after Jordan Love in the wild-card round of the playoffs two seasons ago. Love won’t have to worry about evading the sack artist anymore.
And, boy, does he seem happy about it.
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Love reacted to the Dallas Cowboys trading Parsons to the Green Bay Packers on Thursday with a trio of fire emojis on the quarterback’s Instagram story.
Throughout August, Parsons requested a trade, scrubbed his social media of any Cowboys mentions and flashed a “call me” gesture at a fan who told him to come to the Falcons before a preseason finale in Arlington, Texas, during which Parsons briefly laid down on an athletic training table and closed his eyes. Looking for a contract extension from the Cowboys, Parsons found himself in a standoff with owner and general manager Jerry Jones. They played cat and mouse, and the premier edge rusher won.
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Jones and the Cowboys agreed to trade Parsons to the Packers on Thursday evening. In return, the Packers sent the Cowboys a pair of first-round picks and three-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark.
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By signing a four-year, $188 million deal with the Packers upon joining the team — $136 million of which will be guaranteed, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport — Parsons will enter the 2025 season with a $47 million average salary, making him the new highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history.
New York Giants rookie edge rusher Abdul Carter, who followed in Parsons’ footsteps also dominating while wearing No. 11 at Penn State, reacted to the blockbuster payday.
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt was previously the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history, for a bit more than a month that is, after signing a three-year, $123 million extension on July 17. His brother JJ couldn’t believe Thursday’s news.
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“Keep refreshing and reading to make sure it’s real,” Watt wrote on X. “No wayyyyyyy.”
He later added: “A move of this magnitude is so rare in this league. What a play by Green Bay.”
Cowboys safety Juanyeh Thomas captured the feeling of everyone in his fan base with a GIF of Steve Harvey.
Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown went a similar route, also using a humorous, and telling, GIF to channel how he’s feeling about losing a two-time All-Pro first-teamer who has tallied at least 12 sacks in each of his four NFL seasons since being drafted No. 12 overall in 2021.
Another Dallas defender, and a close of friend of Parsons, quickly chimed in on X. That’s cornerback Trevon Diggs, who has been with Parsons for all but one of his five seasons with the Cowboys.
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Diggs simply posted a broken heart emoji to X.
Former Cowboys players are upset about Thursday’s deal as well. That includes Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker and defensive end DeMarcus Ware.
A member of the team’s Ring of Honor, Ware posted a five-second video of him facepalming twice.
Dez Bryant, a three-time Pro Bowl receiver with the Cowboys who overlapped with Ware in the early 2010s and played for Dallas through the 2017 season, unloaded his thoughts on X.
Bryant wrote, “I knew we was tanking” and “Jerry Jones.. you gotta make sense to this s***….” and “Arch Manning will have a star on his helmet. Nobody can tell me different.”
Meanwhile, the Packers continued to celebrate their newest acquisition, with the team’s social media account comedically giving its spin on the 2014 movie “Draft Day.”
Parsons has logged 52.5 sacks, 256 total tackles, 112 quarterback hits and nine forced fumbles in 63 regular-season games over his first four seasons in the league.
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He’s still only 26 years old. The Packers are getting a game-changing defensive talent in his prime one week before the NFL’s regular-season slate begins.
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