With Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb each signed and sealed, Micah Parsons is the following Dallas Cowboys star in line for an enormous payday.
Parsons, nevertheless, mentioned he’s at the moment extra targeted on successful video games than signing a profitable extension with the Cowboys.
“I do know I will be a Cowboy,” the star move rusher mentioned Monday on his “The Edge with Micah Parsons” podcast. “There’s nothing like Cowboy Nation. I believe the love may be very mutual.
“As for me, I am simply targeted on successful video games. I need to win these huge video games. I need to win these playoff video games, get to the Tremendous Bowl. For me, the contract is just not actually what I am fearful about.”
Parsons is within the closing season of his four-year rookie contract with the Cowboys, who have already got exercised their $21.324 million fifth-year possibility on his deal. The 2-time All-Professional figures to command a deal that will make him among the many highest-paid defensive gamers in NFL historical past, particularly after the record-breaking contracts not too long ago signed by his teammates.
Prescott and the Cowboys agreed to a four-year, $240 million deal hours earlier than Sunday’s season-opening victory over the Cleveland Browns. The contract features a document $231 million in ensures and, with a mean annual worth of $60 million, makes Prescott the NFL’s highest-paid participant.
“Congratulations, Dak Prescott,” Parsons mentioned on his podcast. “My mouth dropped. I even informed a reporter, I mentioned ‘Goddamn, I can by no means be broke once more if Dak Prescott owes me cash.'”
Parsons added that he and his teammates had been relieved to listen to the information of Prescott’s deal after an offseason stuffed with hypothesis over the star quarterback’s future in Dallas.
“We’re blissful it will get achieved as a result of now, it places a number of discuss to the facet,” Parsons mentioned. “We’re like, ‘Man, we acquired our quarterback now.’ We are able to actually simply focus, like Dak said, on successful video games. … So having our guys, CeeDee Lamb and Dak achieved, it means the world to us.”
Prescott’s megadeal got here two weeks after the Cowboys and Lamb agreed to a four-year, $136 million deal that makes him the second-highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL historical past.
If he envies his teammates’ new offers, Parsons didn’t present it Monday, as an alternative heaping reward on Prescott.
“Dak is that man, no BS,” Parsons mentioned. “He deserves every little thing that he [gets]. He by no means cheated the sport, he is available in daily with optimistic angle, nice work ethic, and he is at all times first one in, final one out. Constantly being the most effective particular person/participant you can presumably be.
“He by no means cheats the sport, and that is a very powerful half. So when a man like that will get his cash, you say he earned each single greenback. I couldn’t be extra blissful for him.”
Parsons, already a three-time Professional Bowler at simply 25, may in the end land a deal that makes him the NFL’s richest defensive participant. San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa at the moment is the league’s highest-paid defensive participant with a deal that averages $34 million in annual worth.
In an interview Sunday with the team’s official website, Parsons joked that the Cowboys would “most likely throw me a little bit one thing on the facet” if he helps ship a championship. The previous Defensive Rookie of the 12 months reiterated these sentiments Monday.
“It is simply me being the most effective participant that I will be for my guys, for my teammates,” Parsons mentioned. “If a contract or one thing like that occurs [at some point], then that occurs. However proper now, we’ll deal with simply attempting to be legendary, be nice and produce championships again to Dallas.”
