However, we live in a world where the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers. Just for the sake of the exercise, we've picked five AFC teams that could hypothetically trade for Parsons (financially and draft-capital wise) and what that would even look like.

The Patriots have ample cap space and an aggressive mentality--that's led to speculation that they could land Micah Parsons.

The long-simmering tension between Micah Parsons and the Cowboys hit a boiling point on Friday, as the star linebacker publicly requested a trade.