Micah Parsons isn’t hiding why he fell to 12th in last year’s draft—the Cowboys actually landed the former Penn State star after trading down from No. 10 with the division rival Eagles—even if a lot of people in his position would.
Really, there were two reasons for it. The same two everyone talked about in the spring.
“There were a lot of things coming around about my character,” Parsons told me, from a victorious locker room on Sunday afternoon. “And before all that stuff, and before I decided to opt out [of the 2020 college season], I was considered a top-five pick.