Micah Parsons is confident not only that his long-term future remains with the Dallas Cowboys but that the team can also achieve its goal of winning a Super Bowl.
On The Stephen A. Smith Show, the skilled edge-rusher reiterated he wants to be a “Cowboy for life” and added he’s “going to win a championship in Dallas.” He also alluded to the Cowboys’ recent flameouts in the playoffs when he said, “I believe you gotta fail to win.”
Parsons is due to be a free agent in 2026, but he and the team can begin negotiating an extension as early as this offseason.
Whenever he signs on the dotted line, the 24-year-old is poised to become the highest-paid edge-defender in the NFL, a title that belongs to San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa ($34 million) for the time being.
Parsons has posted at least 13 sacks in each of his first three seasons, and he has yet to finish lower than third in the Defensive Player of the Year voting.
There is a bit of a dilemma for Dallas, though, since some of its best players are due to hit the open market around the same time.
Quarterback Dak Prescott is entering the final year of his current deal, and the Cowboys are incentivized to re-sign him right now in order to lower his $59.5 million salary cap hit. As with Parsons, Prescott is all but assured of a pay raise.
Wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is also poised to become a free agent in 2025. Over the past two years, he has caught 242 passes for 3,108 yards and 21 touchdowns since becoming the lead target in the passing game. Based on the present market, he could be looking at a bump to $25 million annually on a multiyear pact.
Retaining Parsons, Prescott and Lamb is likely the Cowboys’ preference, but they’ll have to weigh that against whether the combined cost of the trio makes building a Super Bowl-caliber roster around them too difficult.
