Dallas Cowboys edge rusher Micah Parsons was almost a New York Giants first-round draft pick. General manager Dave Gettleman's costly mistake wasted that opportunity.

If Saquon Barkley is the Giant Who Used To Be, his close friend, Micah Parsons, is the Giant Who Never Was. The Giants infamously passed on drafting Parsons in 2021, choosing to trade out of the No. 11 pick and allow the Penn State star to slip to the Cowboys.

"The Giants lied to me. People don't know this, they told me, if I fell to 11 that they was gonna pick me," Parsons told Bryant McFadden of CBS Sports. "I swear. That's why I punish the Giants every time.

Penn State has become an important hotbed of NFL figures, including the new Offensive Player of the Year, New York Giants defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence II, and one of the most

Micah Parsons, star edge defender for the Dallas Cowboys, claimed during a recent interview that the New York Giants lied to him prior to the 2021 NFL Draft. “The lied to me,” Parsons told Bryant McFadden of CBS Sports.