Micah Parsons is in his second week of practice since tearing his ACL, and the Green Bay Packers edge rusher is already aiming high.
On Thursday afternoon, Parsons made a confident six-word prediction in reply to a post showing him at practice. It came a day after coach Matt LaFleur, when asked whether Parsons would get 11-on-11 reps this week, replied, “That is the plan.”
Micah Parsons Predicts a Big Return After Months of Patience
That teamwork is the next step in a gradual ramp-up. Parsons stuck to individual drills in his first practice back, but this week opened with an illness added to his injury designation, though he was still listed as a limited participant in Wednesday’s practice.
The post Parsons answered came from Dov Kleiman, who shared a look at him on the practice field and asked: “Micah Parsons at practice. What do you notice?”
Parsons passed it along with his own answer: “That’s he gonna shock the world!”
That’s he gonna shock the world! https://t.co/yU2GpTz66Y
— Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) November 12, 2026
Getting to this point took nearly 11 months. Parsons tore the ACL and meniscus in his left knee during a Week 15 loss to the Denver Broncos on December 14.
He worked through the rehab with trainer Nate Weir, and his first practice since the injury came on November 4. That day, he summed up what the wait had asked of him: “Oh, my patience is amazing. I think I got the most patience than, you know, anyone. … It’s nothing but patience.”
“I’m not going to be the All-Pro Micah, the person that, you know, I once was this year,” Parsons said. “Probably not until later, after I go through all my phases and things like that.”
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He paired that caution with a picture of what he does expect people to see once he is back in games: “But I think what people will see is they’re going to see, like, this guy is ready to play football. And he’s going to play hard and he’s going to help boost his defense. And I think you’ll see flashes of All-Pro Micah when I get the pass rush. And there’s going to be times when you’re like, dang, what was Micah doing?”
That All-Pro version is the one Parsons measured himself against. The four-time All-Pro recorded at least 12 sacks in each of his first five NFL seasons, the last of them after Green Bay acquired him from the Dallas Cowboys 10 days before the 2025 opener.
In the 2025 NFL season, Parsons ranked No. 17 in PFN’s Edge Rusher Impact Metric with a grade of 82.0.
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LaFleur, for his part, described what the Packers get from that player the day Parsons returned to practice.
“I mean, he’s a generational talent. He definitely flips the favor of the field into your court in regards to his ability to win his 1-on-1s. And I think, like we saw a year ago, the thing that impressed me most about him was his impact in the run game as well. So he’s a dominant force.”
Green Bay saw that up close last season. A third of the Packers’ pressures came from Parsons before he got hurt, according to Next Gen Stats.
How the Practice Window Shapes the Timing of Parsons’ Return
Parsons remains on the physically unable to perform list. The Packers have 21 days to activate him from it, and that clock started with the November 4 session.
Before the window even opened, LaFleur was asked on November 2 whether the Packers expected Parsons to need all 21 days of it. His answer: “If I had to bet on it, it’s going to be more toward the longer end than the shorter end.”
The Minnesota Vikings visit Lambeau Field on Sunday ahead of the Week 11 bye, and Green Bay then visits the Los Angeles Rams on November 25.
Counting 21 days from November 4, Parsons’ activation window runs through November 25, the same day Green Bay plays the Rams at SoFi Stadium.
