Since his arrival in Green Bay last August, first team All-Pro Micah Parsons has experienced a litany of highs and lows.

While we’re all eager to see him return to the field, which has unfortunately seemed further and further away, I think his impact off of it will make the biggest difference in the Green Bay Packers’ upcoming season.

Whether fans like it or not, this year’s Packers will likely have the gist of their season decided before The Lion is even cleared to play.

Here’s how his offseason efforts will affect the 2026 season.

Leader of Men

The Green Bay Packers have been one of the NFL’s youngest teams for some time now, and with that comes a lack of profound leadership.

That’s not to say that there aren’t voices in the locker room—Xavier McKinney for example stands out in that regard—but there continues to be a disconnect in the way that the team carries itself and the ultimate result on the field.

Winnable games are being lost, and easy mistakes are being made.

I think a full offseason of Micah Parsons’ presence will do a lot for that, at least on the defensive side of the ball.

Parsons has been quick to uplift many of the Green Bay Packers’ young players, most notably Lukas Van Ness, Barryn Sorrell, and Collin Oliver, and it feels like it’s been some time since we saw that kind of gesture being made consistently by a veteran player—if one can be called a veteran at just 27 years old.

For a crop of players who will play a significant part in the Packers’ early season success without Micah, especially now that the team has moved on from Rashan Gary, a vote of confidence from a player of his caliber is nothing to slouch at.

Before Lukas Van Ness was injured last season, he seemed to finally be coming into his own, thanks in part to Parsons, and Micah has remained adamant that Van Ness will be one of the most important cogs in the Packers’ pass rush moving forward.

You can take that for what you will, maybe it’s simply a teammate supporting a teammate, but for a player who has struggled to live up to his draft billing in a class with “better” options, the endorsement is pretty glowing.

The same can be said for Parsons’ support of last year’s rookies.

At the end of 2025, I wrote about the flashes of potential that we saw from Barryn Sorrell and Collin Oliver, and their dedication to their craft in the offseason has only made me more excited about their future as Green Bay Packers.

Both players took an invitation from Parsons to travel to Dallas to train in the offseason, and the seeds planted in those six weeks have only continued to germinate.

At nearly every stage of the offseason thus far, we’ve seen evidence of Parsons boot-camping his proteges.

The latest edition was just a few days ago, including the Packers’ newest additions, and I think that speaks a lot to the chemistry along the defensive front moving forward.

At the very least, we’ll have a group hungry to win games in the early season, and with the make or break nature of the Packers’ first four weeks, there couldn’t be a better mentality to move into the season with.