{"id":828779,"date":"2026-08-28T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:20:27","slug":"micah-parsons-calls-jahmyr-gibbs-the-fastest-person-ive-ever-seen-on-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828779\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons calls Jahmyr Gibbs &#8220;the fastest person I&#8217;ve ever seen on the field&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions gave Jahmyr Gibbs a new contract this month that made him the highest-paid running back in the NFL. Packers outside linebacker Micah Parsons thinks that was a wise investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the fastest person I\u2019ve ever seen on the field,\u201d Parsons said of Gibbs as part of the NFL\u2019s Top 100 Players feature.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons has seen Gibbs on the field three times: Twice last year when the Packers faced the Lions, and once in 2023, when Parsons and the Cowboys faced Gibbs as a rookie. Gibbs hasn\u2019t had big numbers in any of those games, which Parsons attributes to the whole defense being focused on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need 11 people running to the ball every play,\u201d Parsons said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t rally tackle, there\u2019s no way you\u2019re beating the Lions with him at running back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Packers and Lions play in Week 7 and Week 18 this season. Parsons says he and his teammates will have their hands full.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re watching the tape like, \u2018We\u2019ve got this dude again this week?\u2019\u201d Parsons said. \u201cHe\u2019s for real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions gave Jahmyr Gibbs a new contract this month that made him the highest-paid running back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-828779","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\/828779","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=828779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}