The Dallas Cowboys‘ situation with Micah Parsons’ contract is starting to become an issue.
The game-wrecking EDGE rusher and two-time All-Pro and the Cowboys are “further apart than than they were in March,” according to well-connected ESPN insider Adam Schefter.
Parsons is playing on his fifth-year option and will be a free agent in March. He has made the Pro Bowl in each of his first four seasons and has been a first- or second-team All-Pro performer in three of his four seasons and is a two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year finalist.
What Is Micah Parsons’ Contract Status With The Cowboys?
The Cowboys tend to make contract negotiations unnecessarily tenuous, and they are following that script with Parsons again.
Schefter made an appearance on “Get Up” on Thursday and reported the potential for a deal is not good, at least in the short-term.
“Everybody has a perception that the deal between the Dallas Cowboys and Micah Parsons is going to get done, and maybe one day it will because negotiations take twists and turns that you don’t expect,” Schefter said on “Get Up” on Thursday. “But today, July 31, they are further apart on a deal than they were in late March.
“It is not trending toward getting done. It’s trending the other way, and I think there are major questions as to how this situation will be resolved.”
Schefter cited the acrimony between both sides, in terms of negotiations, since he reported neither side has submitted a proposal in months — Schefter hypothesized it had been since the NFL owners’ meetings in Palm Beach, Florida, which were held from March 30-April 2.
“When Jerry Jones spoke at the owners’ meetings [he] made it sound like a deal was at the doorstep, but it’s not,” Schefter said.
What Did Adam Schefter Say About A Deal Getting Done Between Micah Parsons and the Cowboys?
Parsons has been holding out of practice for a new contract but has been at Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California, which makes things a little bit uncomfortable for both sides at the moment.
But, according to Schefter, the Cowboys have the leverage, which is why they are balking at a new deal with their superstar face of their defense.
“Each side is going to have some decisions to make here,” Schefter added, “because if they don’t get a deal done, the Dallas Cowboys would have Micah Parsons under contract for $24 million.
“They could [franchise] tag him next year for about $30 million. They control his rights for the next two years for anywhere between $52-$58 million — which by the way is just below what some of these pass rushers are making on an annual basis now.”
But even though his presence bodes well for Parsons’ future with the Cowboys, Schefter thinks it will be later rather than sooner before it does.
“You have to wonder when [a deal] will get done,” Schefter said. “Something is going to have to change before the deal does get done.”
The Cowboys season opens in five weeks — when they take on the reigning-world champion Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 4. Schefter said he isn’t sure if Parsons will be on the field by then.
“I can say with fair certainty that nobody knows how this is going to go,” Schefter said.
