If the “Oh, you must be faster than that! “Advertising was an NFL team, it would be Dallas’ cowboys. Always a day late and a too expensive dollar, the team once again allowed the market.
The executive vice-president and the man of the money Stephen Jones mentioned, while he was in negotiations with agent OO97 Odighizuwa, that the team agenda had to finish this so that they could move to discussions on the celestial lighting Micah Parsons. Parsons is entering the fifth year option of its agreement and should order the most money ever given to non-arte-back.
A week ago The ceiling was seated at $ 34 million a year, $ 170 million in total compensation and $ 122.5 million in total guarantees. But Sunday, the Cleveland Browns concluded an agreement with another rusher on board on a renowned temple trajectory, input Myles Garrett to an average extension of $ 40 million per season and totaling $ 123.5 million in guarantees.
From trade to truce and beyond: the Browns and Myles Garrett have concluded an agreement today on a record contract extension which reaches an average of $ 40 million per year and includes $ 123.5 million in guaranteed money and now makes him the best paid non-QB in the history of the NFL, the sources have declared to ESPN.… pic.twitter.com/scnwjh2vfx
– Adam Schefter (@adamschefter) March 9, 2025
Garrett extension goes beyond the average salary earned by Las Vegas raiders Edge Maxx Crosby, which earlier in the week has signed a new extension which reaches an average of $ 35.5 million per season. Go beyond the Nick Bosa agreement of $ 1.5 million $ 1.5 million per year. Garrett now leaves this total in the dust, taking advantage of the 23.8 million dollars in additional space on the Ceiling of the NFL 2025.
And what he does is define the reference base to find out where negotiations with Micah Parsons will sit.
Garrett is one of the two players who can show a case to be as good a vivid force of nature as Parsons, with TJ Watt of Pittsburgh. Watt also seeks to obtain an extension during the offseason, so Dallas may have to move quickly to beat the next gradual change at $ 41 million a year.
The good problem for the Cowboys Overall, but difficult in negotiations, is that Parsons accomplishes what these veterans have at the start of his career. The only rusher of pass to have totals of parson bags during their first four seasons of the NFL is the incomparable Reggie White, and he spent two seasons as a pro before joining the NFL. Parsons is literally the most accomplished college player in NFL with 52.5 bags during his first four seasons.
And so it goes without saying that it has a reasonable expectation of exceeding Garrett figures now that they are official, and they could violate the total guarantee threshold of $ 125 million.
Parsons spoke, Towards the end of last seasonThat he thought he didn’t need to break the bank if Dallas chose to use their cap space to get the help necessary to win a championship.
It is an interesting socket, since Garrett has spent the last months to insist on the fact that he was exchanged to a team who is a candidate in the championship, addressing the ineptis of the Browns organization to develop a winner. While the cowboys were in the playing series hunting most of the parson career, Dallas is now kidnapped at three decades from any championship match. They are not as bad as the Browns, but they failed to reach the success that really matters.
The Browns, which have become an aberrant value in their dissected agreement with the quarter-Arrière Deshaun Watson a few years ago, have just reset another market. The NFL did not immediately follow the step on the parameters of the fully guaranteed Watson agreement, but things increased in this direction.
Will Parsons place under Garrett, in the way the WR Ceedee lamb landed under the rhythm number of Justin Jefferson in this position? Or will he go beyond it and define the new standard?
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Dallas Cowboys, Micah Parsons negotiations affected by Garrett Deal