Micah Parsons Trade BREAKING: 'I No Longer Want To Play for the Dallas Cowboys' originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Micah Parsons has had enough with the Dallas Cowboys.
Fans were awakened Friday morning with a storm of speculation on social media after Parsons and best buddy Trevon Diggs fueled the media with a series of posts suggesting their duo (and time in Dallas?) might be reaching its final moments.
Then ... things took a dramatic turn as The Athletic's Dianna Russini is the first major news outlet to form Micah's situation into a headline.
BREAKING: The Micah Parsons-Cowboys relationship has deteriorated to the point where the star pass rusher is considering drastic measures which could include a trade request or even a declaration that he is severing his relationship with the team, per multiple league sources… pic.twitter.com/7Yujmv4JQ2
— Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) August 1, 2025
And after that? Micah went official, posting on social media his "Thank You, Dallas'' announcement ... a sort of goodbye letter as he made his trade request public and official.
In part, Parsons wrote, "I no longer want to be here."
Thank you Dallas 🦁👑 🙏🏾! I pic.twitter.com/EUnEj9uRUt
— Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) August 1, 2025
“I have made a tough decision,” Parsons wrote in a statement on X. “I no longer want to play for the Dallas Cowboys. My trade request has been submitted to Stephen Jones personally. ...
“I no longer want to be held to close door negotiations without my agent present. I no longer want shots taken at me for getting injured while laying it on the line for the organization, our fans and my teammates. I no longer want narratives created and spread to the media about me.”
For Cowboys Nation, it's the haunting possibility coming true. A worst-case scenario. A nightmare.
But it was almost inevitable if things were going like they were. And now here we are.
Parsons' week in Oxnard was spent holding pads during, attending meetings, and supporting his teammates from the sidelines the best he could during his "hold in". Now it appears he's gotten tired of it.
"The two sides remain far apart heading into the second week of training camp, and are not currently negotiating," Russini says.
The possibility of Micah "considering drastic measures which could include a trade request or even a declaration that he is severing his relationship with the team," are not fun to hear. A trade? One last season before dipping in free agency (and presumably with Diggs, who is already in the doghouse)?
Or could this be a last-second ploy to gain some type of traction in the negotiation? That's the optimistic way to look at it.
Putting the ball in Jerry Jones' court with a major stance like this may be Parsons' best shot at signing a contract sooner than we saw from CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott last year.
It's his chance to push all the player leverage he has into the center, as apparently the hold in has done little in scaring Jones off his pedestal and getting something agreed upon so Micah can practice.
In this case, nice guys - who still show up to training camp - do finish last.
Ultimately, the Cowboys still have a final say, despite how upset Parsons could become. There are two franchise tags he could be placed on after this season (remember, he's under contract in his fifth-year rookie option in 2025).
That certainly won't pay him the $40+ million APY he's deserving of as a premier pass rusher in the modern NFL, but it keeps him in Dallas.
There's reason for fans to get insanely more restless with all these whispers, but our last bit of hope here is to remember that these situations have drawn out this far before.
But we've never seen one with as out-spoken and business-savvy a player as Micah.
If the Joneses don't respond with something different, they risk facing checkmate.
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Aug 1, 2025, where it first appeared.
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