{"id":101216,"date":"2025-08-28T03:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101216\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:35:10","slug":"report-micah-parsons-sought-a-second-opinion-on-his-back-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101216\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Micah Parsons sought a second opinion on his back tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Micah Parsons flew out of DFW Airport on Wednesday morning. Alas, he was not headed to Green Bay or a new home anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Slater of NFL Media reports that Parsons is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlaterNFL\/status\/1960847265603490095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">seeking a second opinion<\/a> on his back.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys had Parsons undergo an MRI on his back Sunday, and coach Brian Schottenheimer said the results were \u201cpretty clean.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>If Parsons is going to continue to hold in until he receives a contract extension, he will need a doctor to sign off on his back \u201ctightness\u201d being too much to play through.<\/p>\n<p>He occasionally cited that for not practicing with the Cowboys during training camp. He and Trevon Diggs even made a joke about it in Parsons\u2019 initial media session at the start of camp. <\/p>\n<p>Parsons asked for a trade Aug. 1, and the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/source-packers-have-interest-in-micah-parsons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Packers reportedly have some interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys open the season a week from tomorrow in Philadelphia, and the fact that Parsons is seeking a second opinion is probably not a good sign that he\u2019ll get his contract extension before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons flew out of DFW Airport on Wednesday morning. Alas, he was not headed to Green Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-101216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}