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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The 2025 NFL draft is scheduled to get underway on Thursday, April 24 at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
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