Dallas Cowboys’ Micah Parsons returns to El Paso for softball: Details about NFL star

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons is coming back to El Paso.

Aaron and Alvin Jones’ A&A All the Way Foundation announced the NFL player would be back for their charity softball game on Thursday, June 27, a year after he dominated the event with several prodigious home runs.

Afterward he expressed pleasure at the warm reception he received — he didn’t seem to realize El Paso is a Cowboys town — and vowed to return. He’s making good on that.

Micah Parsons celebrates hitting a home run during the second annual A&A All the Way charity softball game held at Southwest University Park in El Paso on June 29, 2023.

Micah Parsons contract

After Dallas exercised an option, he is under contract through the 2025 season and paid $21.5 million per year.

Who is Micah Parsons?

The defensive end/linebacker has played three seasons for the Cowboys after getting drafted in the first round out of Penn State. He was drafted as a linebacker and is still listed that way on the Cowboys’ roster, but he plays more at defensive end.

What has he won?

Parsons was the NFL defensive rookie of the year in 2021 and was a first-team All-Pro selection in 2021 and ’22. He was second team last year. He won the Butkus Award in 2021 as the NFL’s best linebacker.

Micah Parsons stats

Parsons had 14 sacks last season with one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. He had 64 total tackles. For his career, Parsons has 40.5 sacks and seven forced fumbles.

Where is he now?

Parsons has skipped Dallas’ OTAs (organized team activities) and was called out by coach Mike McCarthy.

“I think any time that you have a chance to be together, it’s an opportunity to improve,” McCarthy said via the team’s official website. “Whether it’s in the mental realm, the physical realm and the emotional connection and so forth. It’s a long year. Training camp is really the heightened focus for all of that, but it’s definitely an opportunity that’s been missed.”

Micah Parsons holds up his MVP trophy from the 2023 A&A All the Way Foundation celebrity softball game

How good of a softball player is Micah Parsons?

Last year he hit home runs in his first two at-bats at Southwest University Park and was awarded the MVP trophy.