Micah Parsons says don't get your hopes up.

He's not coming back early from his ACL recovery.

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We're going to talk about Christian Watson, what the latest receiver market means about his

extension, especially with the Drake London contract being handed out.

We're going to talk about Zaire Franklin more a little bit later in the show.

But let's start with Micah Parsons, who spoke to the media yesterday addressing his ACL

recovery. What we found out was, in addition to the ACL, he had a cleanup meniscus procedure,

and the most important, because it speaks directly to the timeline, is he has imposed, self-imposed,

a nine-month recovery rule.

So he had surgery.

He will not come back sooner than nine months from that surgery.

Surgery on December 29th.

That means the soonest he could come back is September

29th. He's going to start the season on PUP, which means the first four weeks are out.

The Green Midpackers play the Chicago Bears October 11th. So that would mean, uh, you have two weeks wiggle room there. They play the Cowboys on

October 18th. There would be some fitting symmetry in both of those cases. My guess is he's got week five circled. He's got to sit out. So if he starts

the season on PUP, he's got to sit out. Week five would be the soon as he could come back,

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