Cowboys' Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons weigh in on NFL grass vs. turf debate

Grass has never been a hotter topic. After Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles earlier this week, many people around the league have voiced concern surrounding turf fields. On Thursday, a few Dallas Cowboys stars gave their opinions.

“Dak Prescott says he’s ‘100% grass,’ while CeeDee Lamb stated he’s ‘grass all of time,'” Cowboys writer Patrik Walker wrote. “Micah Parsons said he doesn’t care, he’d ‘play on concrete, and has.’ When told that Parsons would play on concrete, Dak laughed and said… ‘He’s young.'”

The trio’s opinions are intriguing concerning their home field at AT&T Stadium is turf. The unnatural field certainly didn’t seem to bother the Cowboys this weekend in their dominant 40-0 win against the New York Giants.

NFL leadership voices opinion

Despite rising worries about the issue, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is not in a rush to make a decision.

“You have other players who like playing on the turf field because it’s faster. So you’ve got mixed opinions,” Goodell said on Wednesday. “What we want to go on is science, we want to go on what’s the best from an injury standpoint.”

While Rodgers’ isn’t the first player to suffer a lower-body injury on turf, Goodell isn’t certain statistics back up concerns. Before making any league-altering changes, the 64-year-old commissioner wants to properly research the issue.

“That’s how we make decisions, not because I see an injury that I don’t like,” Goodell added. “Ultimately, I want our experts to come back and give it to us.”

Others aren’t so patient. On Wednesday, NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell released a statement, pushing for the replacement of turf fields.

“Moving all stadium fields to high quality natural grass surfaces is the easiest decision the NFL can make,” Howell’s statement read, via NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo. “The players overwhelmingly prefer it and the data is clear that grass is simply safer than artificial turf. It is an issue that has been near the top of the players’ list during my team visits and one I have raised with the NFL.

“While we know there is an investment to making this change, there is a bigger cost to everyone in our business if we keep losing our best players to unnecessary injuries. It makes no sense that stadiums can flip over to superior grass surfaces when the World Cup comes, or soccer clubs come to visit for exhibition games in the summer, but inferior artificial surfaces are acceptable for our own players.

“This is worth the investment and it simply needs to change now.”