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Todd ArcherAug 5, 2025, 08:33 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.<\/p>\n OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas Cowboys<\/a> owner and general manager Jerry Jones is not confident Pro Bowl edge rusher Micah Parsons<\/a> will be available for the Sept. 4 season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n “No, absolutely not,” Jones said after Tuesday’s joint practice with the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>. “A big part of that is his decision. How would I know that?”<\/p>\n Parsons made a trade request<\/a> Friday that Jones dismissed as part of the negotiation<\/a> toward a multiyear agreement between the two sides. Since then, Jones has not spoken with Parsons — at one point before practice they were a mere 7 yards apart — and there have been no discussions between the team and Parsons’ agent, David Mulugheta.<\/p>\n Jones was asked when the urgency for a deal would increase, and he eventually said, “I’m urgent.”<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Parsons is under contract for this season on the fifth-year option of his rookie deal, set to make $21.324 million. Over the weekend, Jones alluded to Dak Prescott<\/a> and DeMarcus Lawrence<\/a> playing on the final years of their contracts or on the franchise tag without issue. The Cowboys eventually reached deals on mega-extensions with both players.<\/p>\n Parsons has been taking part in the walk-throughs each day, but not in any drills. He spent a portion of Tuesday’s workout talking to former Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth, who has been something of a mentor to him over the years.<\/p>\n He has not spoken to the media since delivering his trade request.<\/p>\n In March, Jones believed he and Parsons had reached an agreement on a deal when it came to the contract length, guarantees and overall money, saying what he offered was “a hell of a lot more than you think I did.” Jones also referred to “guaranteeing somebody almost $200 million.”<\/p>\n Parsons asked the Cowboys to contact Mulugheta, and things have been at a stalemate since.<\/p>\n Asked if Parsons needs to reach out to him, Jones said, “Y’all are getting what’s in the mind or what’s in the said. This is a good time. He’s subject matter. What it is is what it is. We’ll work through it, or we will not work through it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd ArcherAug 5, 2025, 08:33 PM ET CloseTodd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-61563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}