Micah Parsons Looks to Become Best Player in the NFL

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In a recent media appearance, Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons mentioned that “I don’t want to be anything short of the No. 1 (player in the NFL). That’s the type of confidence I have. I want to be the best. I want to be feared.”

The first-team All-Pro who has taken the NFL by storm after being drafted by the Dallas Cowboys with the 12th pick in the 2021 NFL Draft out of Penn State. Parsons is a kid with a heck of a track record in terms of his time before the NFL. He was recruited by several of the biggest universities including Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma.

Parsons only played one season of college football before taking a year off (due to concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic) and declaring for the NFL Draft. Yet in that one season at Penn St, Micah Parsons dominated the field and earned Linebacker of the Year honors for the Big Ten along with being a consensus All-American pick and the Cotton Bowl defensive MVP.

After entering the NFL, Micah Parsons simply dominated. In his rookie season last year, Parsons put up numbers that only a select few defensive players ever put up in their rookie seasons. With 12 sacks over his first 13 games, Parsons put up the fourth-best sack numbers for a rookie in NFL history behind Julius Peppers (13), Reggie White (13), and Leslie O’Neal (12.5). It was a year that would get him voted into the Pro Bowl, make him a first-team All-Pro, and the unanimous Defensive Rookie of the Year. 

Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is hoping Parsons can live up to his potential as he wants his star defensive player to go from a great player to “an elite player”. 

McCarthy when talking about Micah Parsons recently said in an interview, “Obviously Micah had a lot of great moments last year, but our desire—and it needs to be his desire—is for him to be an elite player, not just a great player,” 

“The elite ones bring everybody with them. How they work, how they compete in practice, how they compete in the weight room, how they compete at garbage-can basketball in the locker room.”

With the 2022 season inching closer, Parsons will have to get started on his quest to be the best against one of the league’s best offensive lines in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For a player expecting himself to be nothing “short of the number one (player in the NFL),” the first game of the season is the perfect place for Parsons to begin.


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