Packers get major Parsons warning from former Cowboys teammates

Green Bay Packers edge-rusher Micah Parsons. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Packers get major Micah Parsons warning from former Cowboys teammates

Originally posted on WI Sports Heroics | By Matt Lombardo | Last updated Aug 31, 2025 6:33 PM ET

The Packers’ blockbuster trade to acquire Micah Parsons has been heralded as one of the most impactful in recent NFL history by those inside the league.

"They’re Super Bowl contenders now," an AFC scout told me, on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about the trade.

However, not everyone is convinced that Green Bay’s trade will be the difference-maker that Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst hopes and league insiders believe it will.

Packers get Micah Parsons warning from former teammates

Parsons lands in Green Bay as a potential missing piece for Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley’s defense, boasting 52.5 career sacks, and off a season in which he posted the third-highest pass-rush win rate among NFL edge-rushers.

But some of Parsons’ former teammates have a strong warning for the Packers.

"Martin, Lamb and Prescott are/were very popular in the locker room," Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer wrote. "That’s not the case with Parsons, who has rankled teammates in different ways, seen by some as egotistical and self-centered. His podcast has created issues, too, that go all the way up to quarterback Dak Prescott."

There was apparently a belief among some of Parsons’ former Cowboys teammates that Parsons spent too much time on his podcast and too little honing his craft.

Whether those Cowboys players are merely bitter that Dallas traded away one of the franchise’s brightest stars, or whether those concerns hold merit, remains to be seen. But Parsons’ impact on the field is undeniable, and he could be a game-changer for the Packers.