Packers Place Five On PUP List Including Micah Parsons

Per the NFL transaction wire, the Packers placed five players on the active/PUP list on Tuesday. 

The full list includes: 

1. OT Brant Banks
2. LS Matt Orzech
3. DE Jordon Riley
4. DT Nazir Stackhouse
5. LB Micah Parsons

Players on the active injury lists still count against the 90-man roster and can come off at any time once they pass a physical. If still on the list by roster cutdowns, they must miss the first four games. 

This is the first step for Parsons starting the season on the PUP list as has been expected for months as he rehabs a torn ACL. 

He’ll make his 2026 debut sometime after the first four games. 

Parsons, 26, was the former No. 12 overall pick by the Cowboys in the 2021 NFL Draft out of Penn State. He played out the final year of a four-year, $17,079,792 rookie contract that included a $9,781,667 signing bonus.

Dallas exercised the fifth-year option for Parsons, and he’s slated to make $21.32 million guaranteed in 2025. 

The Cowboys traded Parsons to the Packers for DT Kenny Clark and two first-round picks before the 2025 season. Green Bay instantly handed Parsons a four-year, $186 million extension, keeping him under team control through 2029. 

In 2025, Parsons appeared in 14 games for the Packers and recorded 41 total tackles, 12.5 sacks, two forced fumbles and a pass deflection.