Dallas Cowboys’ Micah Parsons returns to El Paso for softball: Details about NFL star

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons is coming back to El Paso.

Aaron and Alvin Jones’ A&A All the Way Foundation announced the NFL player would be back for their charity softball game on Thursday, June 27, a year after he dominated the event with several prodigious home runs.

Afterward he expressed pleasure at the warm reception he received — he didn’t seem to realize El Paso is a Cowboys town — and vowed to return. He’s making good on that.

The defensive end/linebacker has played three seasons for the Cowboys after getting drafted in the first round out of Penn State. He was drafted as a linebacker and is still listed that way on the Cowboys’ roster, but he plays more at defensive end.

Parsons was the NFL defensive rookie of the year in 2021 and was a first-team All-Pro selection in 2021 and ’22. He was second team last year. He won the Butkus Award in 2021 as the NFL’s best linebacker.

Parsons had 14 sacks last season with one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. He had 64 total tackles. For his career, Parsons has 40.5 sacks and seven forced fumbles.