Cowboys' Micah Parsons 'Pretty Confident' in New Contract; There's 'A Plan in Place'

One of the biggest tasks on the Dallas Cowboys' agenda this year is giving Micah Parsons an extension.

The star edge-rusher is under contract for 2025 but would hit free agency next offseason if he doesn't get an extension, which both sides would likely prefer to avoid.

Ahead of an offseason that could see Parsons get record money, he said he's confident he'll get a new contract from Dallas soon.

"Oh, it's good, you know? It was good," Parsons said of his most recent conversation with team owner Jerry Jones, per DallasCowboys.com's Patrik Walker. "I really have a lot of respect for Jerry. We have great conversations all the time. There's definitely a plan in place, but we'll just see how everything plays out. There's been no progress yet, but I'm pretty confident that something will happen, so we'll see."

Parsons, the Cowboys' 12th overall pick in 2021, is coming off a season in which he recorded 43 tackles, 12 sacks, two forced fumbles and 12 tackles for loss despite playing just 13 games.

The perennial Defensive Player of the Year candidate has a projected average annual salary of $30 million, per Spotrac, but it would be no shock to see him match or surpass Nick Bosa, who earns $34 million a year from the San Francisco 49ers, as the NFL's highest-paid defensive player.

Parsons would like to have his contract settled early in the offseason, but the Cowboys have been known to wait well into the summer to handout extensions. Both wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and quarterback Dak Prescott didn't get their new contracts until the waning moments of the offseason last year.

The good news for Dallas is that it won't have to pay Parsons before training camp if it doesn't want to, as he said in December that he has no plans of a holdout.