Overview

• Parsons arrived in Oxnard on Monday without a new deal and is set to play on his fifth-year rookie option.
• Owner Jerry Jones said he has not negotiated directly with Parsons’s agent and highlighted durability risks after missed games last season.
• The Cowboys are working out free agents Jesse Luketa, Kameron Cline and James Houston to fill in if Parsons limits his on-field participation.
• Recent extensions for T.J. Watt and Myles Garrett have driven projected edge-rusher salaries above $40 million per year, elevating Parsons’s market value.
• Parsons publicly criticized the protracted negotiations and retweeted J.J. Watt’s rebuke of Jones’s comments on player injuries.