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Green Bay Packers: Micah Parsons Speaks Highly of 3x Pro Bowl DT Kenny Clark After Trade

Originally posted on WI Sports Heroics | By Robin M Adams | Last updated Aug 31, 2025 9:56 AM ET

The NFL world is still reeling from the shock of the Green Bay Packers breaking from their traditional way of doing business by trading for four-time Pro Bowl linebacker Micah Parsons. Typically, the Packers are known to highly value their own draft picks and homegrown talent. Yet, the sent two future first round picks (in 2026 and 2027) along with Kenny Clark, their longest tenured player, to the Dallas Cowboys in order to get Parsons.

While the trade was exciting and clearly makes Green Bay a better overall team, it was also bitter-sweet because of Clark being included in the deal. Up until late last week, he was the only player on the roster that had been drafted by the late Ted Thompson, and his reputation in the organization and community cannot be understated.

Indeed, Clark always carried the G and set a high standard for professionalism, behavior, and play on the field, one of which Parsons is well aware.

New Green Bay Packers Star Micah Parsons Has High Praise for Kenny Clark

Green Bay Packers 53-Man Roster Prediction as 2025 NFL Training Camp Kicks Off 3 Green Bay Packers nose tackle Kenny Clark (97) celebrates a sack on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) during the third quarter of the divisional playoff game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on January 22, 2022.

Clark, a first round pick in 2016, played nine seasons for the Packers, making three Pro Bowls and accumulating 35.0 sacks. He has not missed a single game since 2021, and played the majority of last season through a toe injury that he suffered in Week One, and needed surgery on during this past offseason.

In other words, Clark was, and still is, a warrior on the gridiron, leading by example and playing through pain in order to help his team.

And during his own introductory press conference in Green Bay, Parsons took some time to acknowledge the legacy left by the future Packers Hall of Famer.

“I never want to try to replace [Clark],” Parsons said. “I just want to try to sustain the standard he left here and his print that he left, just like the other prestigious guys that came through this program.”

Parsons told reporters he saw walls covered with franchise icons like Reggie White and Brett Favre, and thought to himself that he wants to join them on those murals someday.

This article first appeared on WI Sports Heroics and was syndicated with permission.

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