06-08-2025
Aaron Donald and Micah Parsons' Instagram exchange creates buzz
Could Aaron Donald come out of retirement to play for the Los Angeles Rams again? According to him, maybe, but under one condition: Micah Parsons has to end up in Los Angeles.
On Tuesday, Donald left a comment below an Instagram post that showed Parsons, the Dallas Cowboys' star edge rusher, Photoshopped into a Rams jersey.
"If (Micah Parsons) go to the rams I might have to call (2Tenths Speed & Agility) and get in football shape (crying laughing emojis) [with] that Dline (it) would be unreal (facepalm emoji) (fire emoji)."
Donald tagged Parsons in his comment, and the Cowboys' four-time Pro Bowler left a response.
"[M]an!!! Dont tell me info like that!! @davidmulugheta," Parsons wrote, tagging his agent, David Mulugheta, at the end of his comment.
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MICAH PARSONS: Latest updates in edge rusher's contract negotiations with Cowboys
Parsons is still stuck in contract negotiation limbo with his current team. According to a social media post the edge rusher made Friday to formally request a trade, the Cowboys still have not talked to his agent about getting an extension done.
That had not changed by Tuesday, when Dallas's team owner/general manager, Jerry Jones, told reporters he had spoken to neither Parsons nor his agent since the edge rusher's post on Friday. In the meantime, Parsons has been a "hold-in" at Cowboys training camp – he's present in camp but refusing to practice.
Donald last played in the NFL in 2023. He announced his retirement in a social media post in March 2024, ending a 10-year career spent entirely with the Rams.
Donald won the Defensive Player of the Year award three times in a four-year span between 2017 and 2020, and he was a big part of Los Angeles' Super Bowl 56 win in 2021.
In Donald's final year in 2023, he recorded eight of the team's 41 team sacks.
In 2024, their first full year without Donald since drafting him in 2014, the Rams finished 21st in the NFL with 38 sacks as a team. Rookie Braden Fiske led the team with 8.5 sacks.
Parsons recorded 12 sacks in 2024 despite missing four games with a high ankle sprain.
