It's rare to see an extension-needy star player avoid taking a holdout route during a mandatory phase of the offseason, but the Dallas Cowboys have been fortunate enough to have Micah Parsons around the team as they fired up a multi-day minicamp.

There's reason to be optimistic that the Cowboys and Micah Parsons will get a contract extension complete, but talks haven't happened yet.

The Cowboys are not actively shopping Parsons, but the longer contract extension talks drag on the more curious fans become about what his future looks like.

Micah Parsons has shown up for mandatory minicamp with the Dallas Cowboys. He had about a 30-minute conversation with owner Jerry Jones on the practice field while his teammates were going through drills.

Prescott knows how Cowboys contract talks work; Odighizuwa explans how impactful Parsons' minicamp presence was

Something that has gone unnoticed in the Micah Parsons extension discussion is he has helped the Cowboys win an optics war.

Catch up on everything going on with the Dallas Cowboys as they prepare to wrap their offseason work in Frisco.

Cowboys All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons appeared to be following the traditional "hold-in" playbook at the first day of mandatory minicamp on Tuesday amid his on-going contract talks with Dallas. He stretched off to the side that day and wore a beanie all practice,