The Packers have been among the teams consistently linked to Dallas Cowboys All-Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons, and Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst didn’t exactly dispel the notion of a blockbuster trade being a possibility.
“I can’t talk about any players on any other team,” Gutekunst told reporters. “But, every opportunity that is out there, if we think it is going to help the Packers, we’re going to take a long look at. If that opportunity makes sense for us, we’ll do it, if it doesn’t, we won’t.”
Understandably, Gutekunst isn’t permitted to discuss any player under contract with another team, but the fact that he did not deny interest in Parsons is telling, especially for a franchise in need of an upgrade on the edge.
Packers’ Brian Gutekunst Addresses Micah Parsons Speculation
Gutekunst and the Packers sound prepared to leave every option on the table when it comes to both possibly pursuing Parsons and making any potential upgrades to the pass rush.
“First of all, it’s your team and every decision affects your football team. Obviously,” Gutekunst explained. “There’s so many different factors in it. Who the player is, medical, cap-wise, but I think you have to look at everything. Any opportunity to help your football team, you have to discuss and look at as a group. We do that all the time. It’s almost daily.
“I think what someone might consider a bold move, someone else might now … Every opportunity that’s out there to help your football team, we try to take a look at it. Try to see how it affects us right now, how it affects us in the future, and make the best decision that we can.”
It remains to be seen if the Packers will actually get involved in the Parsons sweepstakes, or continue to lean on the likes of Rashan Gary and Lukas Van Ness to generate consistent pressure on opposing quarterbacks this season.
A year removed from taking big swings signing safety Xavier McKinney and Josh Jacobs, a trade for Parsons would be similarly techtonic shifting for the Packers.
Gutekunst underscored that Green Bay isn’t afraid to take those kinds of calculated risks when the payoff is so significant.
“Sometimes we’re right, sometimes we’re wrong,” Gutekunst said. “Sometimes we’ve taken risks and it’s worked out, or it didn’t for us, and sometimes we didn’t take risks and look back and wish we would have. Sometimes, the best deals you make are the ones you don’t. You weigh everything, you weigh what is in the moment, and what is in the future as well.”
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