Edge rushing superstar Micah Parsons was traded from the Dallas Cowboys to the Green Bay Packers on Thursday, a move that affects the Detroit Lions in two ways.

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It also presents a new data point for the Lions and Aidan Hutchinson’s camp as those two sides work out a contract extension. Earlier Thursday, Lions general manager Brad Holmes said “dialogue … has started” between the Lions and Hutchinson’s camp, “so we’ll just kind of see where it goes.”

Parsons’ extension could help expedite the process of Hutchinson inking his new contract, but his $47 million annual price tag sent the top of the edge market skyrocketing up from $41 million (T.J. Watt, Pittsburgh Steelers). It’s an absurd spike considering that Watt, Myles Garrett (Cleveland Browns), Danielle Hunter (Housto

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