What's a poison pill? Explaining Micah Parsons' Cowboys-Packers trade with Eagles update

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What's a poison pill? Explaining Micah Parsons' Cowboys-Packers trade with Eagles update image

The Micah Parsons trade feels like old news now.

The Dallas Cowboys sent him to the Green Bay Packers before the season in a massive blockbuster, and that was that.

ESPN's Adam Schefter added some fresh news to the mix on Sunday morning, though.

"Micah Parsons’ trade to the Packers included a poison pill that the Cowboys inserted to block a deal in the near future to the Eagles," Schefter wrote on X.

A poison pill, you say?

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What's an NFL poison pill?

Obviously, this isn't a real pill of poison. Rather, it's a transactional mechanism.

It basically adds a clause that says, if a team does this additional maneuver, they owe this other team extra capital.

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How does Micah Parsons' Cowboys-Packers-Eagles poison pill work?

Schefter wrote an article Sunday morning explaining that an extra draft pick would get involved if Parsons was moved from the Packers to the Eagles.

"The previously unreported poison-pill condition states that if the Packers decide to trade Parsons to a team in the NFC East division -- the Eagles tried to trade for him last summer before being rebuffed -- then Green Bay would owe Dallas its 2028 first-round draft pick, sources involved in the trade told ESPN," Schefter wrote. "The poison-pill condition also was used on Kenny Clark, the other player involved in the trade, according to sources. If the Cowboys trade Clark to a team in the NFC North, they then would owe the Packers their 2028 first-round pick."

Contributing Writer