The Big Ten announced its decision Tuesday to postpone fall sports. Minutes after, the Pac-12 made the decision to postpone its season as well.
With two of the Power Five conferences not playing, the entire college football season is now up in the air. The SEC, ACC and Big 12 still have plans to have their conference-only seasons, but there are a number of players, coaches and teams that college football fans will miss watching dearly.
The No. 3 player we will miss watching most this year from the Big Ten and Pac-12 is Penn State junior linebacker Micah Parsons.
Parsons is the ultimate Swiss Army knife on the defensive side of the ball. He can disrupt the run game (14 TFL in 2019), cover receivers (five passes defended) as well as rush the passer (five sacks). This all comes on top of Parsons great tackling ability, tallying a total of 191 tackles in just two seasons at Penn State.
Parsons, the Harrisburg, PA native, stands at 6-foot-3, 244 pounds. As a sophomore last season Parsons earned consensus All-American honors and the Big Ten’s Linebacker of the Year award. He was also a Butkus Award finalist.
Prior to the postponement of the Big Ten and Pac-12, the projected top-10 2020 NFL Draft selection decided to opt out of the 2020 college football season due to COVID-19 concerns. In this decision, Parsons also announced he would take this next year to prepare for the 2021 NFL Draft.
