Parsons recorded four tackles (three solo) including a sack and produced a team-high five QB hits in Sunday's win over the Browns. The Cleveland offense was missing both its starting tackles, and as a result Parsons and the Dallas pass rush made life absolutely miserable for Deshaun Watson, pressuring the QB on 25 of his 56 dropbacks en route to six total sacks and 17 QB hits. Parsons piled up 40.5 sacks through his first three seasons in the NFL, all under defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, but it doesn't seem like the switch to Mike Zimmer's scheme is going to slow down the elite edge rusher at all.
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2024 Season Tackles
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Micah Parsons Career Stats
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Career Stats - TACKLES
TOTALASTSOLO21772145Career Stats - Sacks
SCKSCKYDSTFL41.53280Career Stats - INTERCEPTIONS
INTPDTD090Career Stats - Fumbles
FFFRFTD040Tackles
Season TOTAL AST SOLO 2024 4 1 3 2023 64 28 36 2022 65 23 42 2021 84 20 64 Sacks
Season SCK SCKYDS TFL 2024 1 5 0 2023 14 115 0 2022 13.5 88.5 0 2021 13 119.5 0 Interceptions
Season INT PD TD 2024 0 1 0 2023 0 2 0 2022 0 3 0 2021 0 3 0 Defense Fumbles
Season FF FR FTD 2024 0 0 0 2023 0 1 0 2022 0 3 0 2021 0 0 0 -
Career Stats - TACKLES
TOTALASTSOLO18108Career Stats - Sacks
SCKSCKYDSTFL180Career Stats - INTERCEPTIONS
INTPDTD030Career Stats - Fumbles
FFFRFTD000Tackles
Season TOTAL AST SOLO 2023 2 1 1 2022 7 3 4 2021 9 6 3 Sacks
Season SCK SCKYDS TFL 2023 0 0 0 2022 1 8 0 2021 0 0 0 Interceptions
Season INT PD TD 2023 0 0 0 2022 0 3 0 2021 0 0 0 Defense Fumbles
Season FF FR FTD 2023 0 0 0 2022 0 0 0 2021 0 0 0
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Micah Parsons
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TACKLES
TOTALASTSOLO413Sacks
SCKSCKYDSTFL150INTERCEPTIONS
INTPDTD010Fumbles
FFFRFTD000
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Regular SeasondefensiveDateOppResultSOLOASTTOTALSACKSACKYDSINTDEFTFL9/8W 33-1731415011
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Micah Parsons Fantasy Projections
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Next Game1:00 pm September 15TOT 3.8SACK 0.5SOLO 2.5AST 1.2INT 0.0TFL 0.8
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Full season projectionsTOT 57.2SACK 13.0SOLO 34.0AST 23.2
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Picks up sack in Sunday's win
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Parsons recorded four tackles (three solo) including a sack and produced a team-high five QB hits in Sunday's win over the Browns. The Cleveland offense was missing both its starting tackles, and as a result Parsons and the Dallas pass rush made life absolutely miserable for Deshaun Watson, pressuring the QB on 25 of his 56 dropbacks en route to six total sacks and 17 QB hits. Parsons piled up 40.5 sacks through his first three seasons in the NFL, all under defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, but it doesn't seem like the switch to Mike Zimmer's scheme is going to slow down the elite edge rusher at all.
Role could shift with new coach
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Parsons has seen more reps as an off-ball linebacker through two days of training camp rather than lining up purely as an edge rusher, Saad Yousuf of The Athletic reports. The All-Pro defender also lost 10 pounds this offseason as he prepares to handle more duties in pass coverage. "I'm going to be all over, man," Parsons said after Friday's practice. "At the end of the day, they got to find me. That's what I train for." Parsons' usage was expected to change in 2024 as the Cowboys transition from Dan Quinn's defensive scheme to Mike Zimmer's, but getting after the quarterback is still expected to be his main responsibility. The shift could end up resulting in better IDP production, however -- the 2021 first-round pick hasn't come close to the career-high 84 tackles he recorded as a rookie in the two seasons since, as Quinn lined him up at the line of scrimmage more and more often.
Contract option picked up
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The Cowboys have picked up Parsons' fifth-year contract option, Michael Gehlken of The Dallas Morning News reports. The move keeps the 2021 first-rounder -- who played the majority of his snaps at defensive end in 2023 -- under contract with Dallas through the 2025 campaign. Per Gehlken, the star defender's salary in his fifth NFL season will be $21.32 million. The 24-year-old is coming off another productive effort with the Cowboys, in which he racked up 64 tackles and a career high 14 sacks in 17 regular-season outings.
Leads sack parade Sunday
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The Cowboys brought down Bryce Young seven times in total in a 33-10 rout, with Parsons setting a new season high in sacks along the way. The third-year pass rusher has 10 sacks in 10 games to begin the 2023 campaign, putting him on pace to shatter the career-high 13.5 he racked up last season.
Busy in loss to Philly
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He piled up three QB hits in total, and Parsons collected the sack on a second-half play in which Jalen Hurts appeared to injure his knee, although it was contact from a falling DeMarcus Lawrence that seemed to do the damage. Parsons is up to 7.5 sacks through eight games this season, tying him for eighth in the league with Philly's Haason Reddick and Baltimore's Justin Madubuike.