Oh, and the actual contract is $210m/5 year, or $42m average. Still a huge number, but not the $47m number previously reported (that's the new-money average).

Originally Posted by: earthquake 

I think it's four year extension to the 5th year option that was exercised rather than a five year contract.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Micah Parsons will be the first Packer to wear #1 since Curly Lambeau in 1926.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Micah Parsons will be the first Packer to wear #1 since Curly Lambeau in 1926.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

I was going to suggest #1 but then I thought it was unofficially retired.

Originally Posted by: beast 

Well, I mean, hasn't been in circulation in nearly 100 years so ...

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

As far as I understand it, it's a new 5-year contract on the books (technically 7-year with 2 void years). The "new money" portion of the deal (years 2-5) is 47/y, but the actual contract he signed in total is 42/y. Any time a player signs an extension, the old contract is void and replaced with the new one, so he's not playing under two deals (1yr + 4yr), but a single 5-year contract.

This is mostly semantics, though, it's the same result either way. But the agent usually puts out the "new money" number to make it look like it's a bigger deal than it really is.

There are a few ways to look at this, and only two of them are correct:
1. Micah signed a 4-year extension that averages $47m per year - yes (what you said)
2. Micah signed a 5-year contract that averages $42m per year - yes (what I said)
3. Micah’s contract with the Packers averages $47m per year - no

Originally Posted by: earthquake 

I read a comment elsewhere that was something like “The stadium is already named after Curly, let him wear #1”. Which seemed reasonable enough to me.

I’ll also say that if they didn’t want to give it out, they should have retired it for real. It was weird having it be in limbo. (I'm not even sure who "they" is in this context tbh)

Originally Posted by: earthquake 

The blockbuster trade that sent Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers on Thursday marked a new chapter not only for Parsons but for his mother, too.

'No wayyyyyyy': JJ Watt, Dez Bryant headline reactions to blockbuster Micah Parsons trade
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Parsons' four-year, $188 million contract agreement with the Packers includes $120 million fully guaranteed at signing and $136 million in total guarantees, sources told ESPN. The reported deal makes him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history.

The big payday resulted in Parsons seemingly being able to retire his mother, Sherese Parsons, from work. The four-time Pro Bowler posted a video of him celebrating with Sherese on his Instagram story Thursday, writing: "that moment when [your] momma never got to work again!"

Sherese told WFAA during an interview in February that Micah kept trying to get her to quit her job at United Concordia Dental -- where she celebrated 25 years of employment in March -- but that she was "up in the air."

"Maybe [once he signs a new deal]. Cause I told him, I said 'if I quit my job, what am I gonna do?'" she said.

Now, they have a decision to make as Parsons is ready to retire his mother.

The Packers acquired Parsons from the Dallas Cowboys for three-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round picks. Parsons returns to Dallas in Week 4 to face his old team on "Sunday Night Football."