The 26-year-old Parsons is entering the final season of his rookie contract, with the 2021 first-round pick due a club option $24 million in base salary.<\/p>\n
Parsons, upset that negotiations have never transpired, requested a trade on Aug. 1<\/a>. Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones responded a day later by saying the request was nothing to “lose any sleep over<\/a>” and merely a negotiation tactic. Then on Aug. 4, Jones said he wasn’t confident<\/a> Parsons would play in the season opener.<\/p>\n Throwing further doubt into the mix is that while Parsons has been in attendance for training camp practices in Oxnard, California — which concluded Wednesday — he’s been dealing with back soreness.<\/p>\n Again, Schottenheimer was optimistic that the four-time Pro Bowler can and will be ready for the Eagles, offering no deadline that Parsons would need to meet to start practicing prior to the NFL Kickoff Game.<\/p>\n “He takes great care of his body,” Schottenheimer said. “Again, you’d like it sooner rather than later, but Micah’s gonna be prepared.”<\/p>\n Schottenheimer added that Parsons has been in walkthroughs and meetings, which should expediate the readiness process.<\/p>\n “That’s a huge advantage,” the rookie head coach said.<\/p>\n Cowboys contract drama has a history of dragging on through the summer. Just last year, CeeDee Lamb<\/a> held out until he agreed to an extension on Aug. 26, 2024<\/a>, and quarterback Dak Prescott<\/a> signed his latest extension on the Sunday of Week 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n So there’s precedent that offers hope Parsons and the Cowboys will come to an agreement and he’ll be on the field against Philly.<\/p>\n However, with no contact between Parsons’ agent and Jones, the outlook dims a bit.<\/p>\n Not for Schottenheimer, however, as he offered a positive view that his first season as the Cowboys’ head coach will kick off with Parsons suited up and good to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 26-year-old Parsons is entering the final season of his rookie contract, with the 2021 first-round pick due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[10949,49,48,1721,1731,44,514,2208,82],"class_list":["post-85533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-micah-parsons","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}