Micah Parsons sets clear goal while adjusting expectations for his return timeline and what it means for the Packers
Star edge defender wants to play early next season.
Micah Parsons tore his ACL back on Dec. 14, so there’s still a long road ahead during his recovery process. Usually, those types of injuries take around 10 months, so Parsons’ presence to start next regular season is still up in the air.
After the Green Bay Packers’ elimination to the Chicago Bears on Saturday, players were available to the press in the locker room on Monday. Parsons took advantage of that opportunity to detail his plan, including an ideal and a more realistic return date target.
“In September, I want to be at a really good spot,” Parsons explained. “So far, they say I’m flying, whatever that means, but there’s a timing standpoint. I don’t think I’ll say that to start the season. I want it, but realistically it’s just about making sure, getting back into football, practicing hard, and getting ready to sustain, taking my body through what I go through.”
Now that Micah Parsons has already gone through his knee surgery, it’s a process to get his regular movements back. But the final part of recovery is also important, and that’s why the Packers and Parsons can’t rush his return.
“I think it’s more about playing free and going, and I’ve got to learn how to simulate that in practice before they send me out there on the field,” he added. “It’s more about that, just so I feel like myself.”
More impactful injuries
Right tackle Zach Tom also suffered a serious knee injury back in Week 15 against the Denver Broncos. It was a partially torn patellar tendon. Tom tried to avoid surgery to return to the field this season, but couldn’t get back in time.
Now that the season is over for the Packers, the offensive lineman admitted that surgery is a possibility. And if that happens, it would be a six-month recovery process — putting him in line to be back for training camp.
It was a painful season for the Packers injury-wise, and the offseason will determine how the start of next year will look like in Green Bay.
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