When it came to what he believes actually happened during the contract negotiations between his star client, Micah Parsons, and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, super agent David Mulugheta left little to the imagination in terms of how he understood what happened.
Mulugheta went on ESPN’s “First Take” on September 2 — less than one week after Parsons was traded to the Green Bay Packers — and hit back at claims by the Cowboys and Jones that a deal had been negotiated and agreed to separate from Mulugheta and that Parsons and his representation had reneged on the deal.
“Micah got a call from Jerry’s assistant that he was being asked to come in and talk about leadership (with Jones),” Mulugheta said. “So the meeting was represented to Micah that it was going to be a talk about leadership that turned into a talk about his contract. So there’s a 25-year-old sitting in a room with his boss, the most powerful man in the NFL, who is telling him he wants to talk about his contract so he’s sitting there and nodding because what’s he supposed to do? There’s a power dynamic there that also needs to be addressed … but at no point did Micah believe he was negotiating a contract.”
The Cowboys and Jones, who also serves as his team’s general manager, have insisted it was Parsons who dictated the terms of the contract and Mulugheta got Parsons to go back on it. Jones even went so far as to say Mulugheta told him and the Cowboys to take their contract offer and “shove it up their ass” — something the agent also disputed.
“At no point in my life have I ever used that term,” Mulugheta said. ” … What I did say was something along the lines of, when they told me they were they were sending me a contract, that if they were just sending it to me to rubber stamp it, they could forget about it.”
“The devil’s in the details.”
David Mulugheta shares details on if Jerry Jones would’ve made Micah Parsons the highest-paid non-QB in NFL history 👀 pic.twitter.com/Kcdhrq6C63
— First Take (@FirstTake) September 2, 2025
‘His Job Is To Chase Quarterbacks’
Mulugheta also pointed out that due to the increasingly complicated nature of NFL contracts, someone like Parsons wasn’t equipped to understand those complexities.
“(Parsons) doesn’t have a law degree,” Mulugheta said. “His job is to chase quarterbacks. Our jobs is to chase commas.”
Commas as in commas between numbers on a contract. The trade to the Packers brought the Cowboys 2 first round picks along with 2-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark. It brought Parsons the contract he wanted, with a 4-year, $188 million contract extension.
Mulugheta pointed out the contract the Cowboys offered Parsons would have likely cost him $30 million over the long run because it was for a 5-year contract instead of a 4-year contract, which Parsons’ reps thought was the better move.
“The market for edge rushers has continued to go up,” Mulugheta said. “It was $35 million with Nick Bosa (in 2023), then it was $40 million to start this year and went up to $47.5 million (with Parsons) … 5 years from now it could be between $65 million to $70 million for edge rushers.”
