There are three numbers the Packers needed to settle regarding Micah Parsons.

The first was the number of draft picks they’d be sending to the Dallas Cowboys to get him to Green Bay. That turned out to be two, both first rounders, in addition to Kenny Clark.

The next was the compensation for Parsons himself. That number turned out to be $188 million, spread over four seasons.

The final number is the most specific: what number the Packers’ newly acquired edge rusher will wear on the field. And that, in a way, might be the hardest one to solve.

Parsons has worn number 11 each of his four seasons with the Dallas Cowboys and throughout his career at Penn State. But that number is currently worn by Jayden Reed, complicating at least one, relatively small part of Parsons’ arrival in Green Ba

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