The Dallas Cowboys have had a unique offseason, with their biggest development seeing them engage in a very public contract extension negotiation with superstar linebacker Micah Parsons. With the 2025 NFL draft quickly approaching, Stephen Jones offered a peak behind the curtain that could spell big news for Parsons.

Parsons will get a $21 million raise in the final year of his rookie deal in 2025, but he wants a long-term deal similar to what quarterback Dak Prescott and wide receiver CeeDee Lamb recently received. According to Jones, the front office wants to find a way to not just extend Parsons, but also build a championship team around him.

“Where the rub comes in is, we’re trying to not only keep guys like Dak (Prescott) and CeeDee (Lamb and Micah, but we’re also trying to put a team around them that can be and can compete and win championships,” Jones said in an interview on “105.3 The Fan.”

With the Cowboys and Parsons’ negotiations spilling out into the public, some have wondered whether the team could trade him if they determine they can’t agree to a new deal with them. However, Jones recently shared an interesting tidbit about that team’s draft plans that make a Parsons trade seem unlikely.

“I don’t necessarily see us moving up, based on the way the board is coming together, but I could see a situation where we move down,” Jones said in the aforementioned interview.

If the Cowboys wanted to move up the board, they could have used Parsons as a trade chip in order to facilitate a deal. Instead, Jones implies that the team is more inclined to move back, which would make involving Parsons in any sort of deal less likely.

The 2025 NFL draft is scheduled to get underway on Thursday, April 24 at 8 p.m. ET.