Twenty-four hours later, the entire sports world is still coming to terms with Thursday afternoon’s seismic preseason trade that sent two-time All-Pro linebacker Micah Parsons from the Dallas Cowboys to the Green Bay Packers.
That includes the crew on ESPN’s mid-morning show First Take, where newly re-signed contributor and former NFL MVP Cam Newton went against the grain and boldly declared Dallas owner Jerry Jones and the Cowboys as the winner of the trade.
The Packers traded their next two first-round picks in the 2026 and 2027 NFL Drafts in addition to three-time Pro Bowl DT Kenny Clark to the Cowboys to acquire Parsons, who is expected to sign an eye-popping four-year, $188 million deal that will make him the NFL’s highest-paid non-quarterback with an average salary of $47 million annually.