The contract signed by Micah Parsons with the Packers will give him a cap number under $10 million in 2025.
The structuring of Micah Parsons' mega contract with the Green Bay Packers will mean his salary cap number stays below $10 million in 2025 and under $30 million during each of the first three seasons of the deal.
Overall, the five-year deal between Parsons and the Packers is worth a little over $210 million.
His cap number for 2025: $9,970,000. Incredibly, Parsons will take up roughly three percent of the team's total cap in 2025.
Over the Cap has expanded contract details for Parsons and the Packers. Among the highlights are a $44 million signing bonus, which is prorated across five years of the deal, and over $70 million in option bonuses. Parsons has base salaries under $4 million during each of his first three seasons in Green Bay but then has over $83 million in base salaries combined in 2028 and 2029, when his cap number explodes. At no point between 2025 and 2027 will Parsons take up more than nine percent of the expected salary cap.
Micah Parsons cap numbers by year with Packers
- 2025: $9,970,000
- 2026: $19,237,000
- 2027: $26,845,600
- 2028: $64,288,600
- 2029: $68,288,600
The Packers added two void years to the deal, so $21,377,200 is scheduled to hit the team's cap in 2030 when the contract officially voids.
Here's the contract layout:
Per Over the Cap, the Packers still have $14 million in salary cap space after acquiring Parsons and trading away Kenny Clark.
More on the dead cap charges of trading Clark here.
This article originally appeared on Packers Wire: Micah Parsons Packers contract: Salary cap number under $10M for 2025
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