Myles Garrett is indisputably the best bad-team pass-rusher in the history of the National Football League, as he reminded yesterday. In yet another dominating, four-sack performance, he watched his lowly Browns squander a golden opportunity against the Ravens. Even worse, they couldn’t make a pick-six by former Steelers first-round ILB Devin Bush count for something.
Eleven weeks into the 2025 season, Myles Garrett is now up to 15 sacks, one behind his career high. He has a two-sack lead over Brian Burns for the most in the NFL, with 10 in his last three games. According to Pro Football Focus, he is just the third player to ever do that, tied with Richard Dent in 1984 and Derrick Thomas in 1997-98. Garrett is the second player behind Dent to do it in a single season.
But Myles Garrett is the first player in NFL history to record 12-plus sacks in six consecutive seasons. With his four sacks yesterday, he broke a tie with the great Lawrence Taylor for that distinction. He already owned the record for the most consecutive seasons with 10-plus sacks, now on Year 8.
None of this changes the fact that the Browns are nearly always bad, however. Garrett has 117.5 career sacks now, 58.5 of which have come in Browns losses. That’s more than the 53 sacks that he has in Browns wins. Of course, he has only recorded a sack in 35 Browns wins compared to 43 Browns losses. And because this is the Browns, he also has two sacks in ties.
In comparison, T.J. Watt has 84.5 sacks in 57 Steelers wins compared to 25.5 sacks in 23 Steelers losses. And he actually has four sacks in tie games, including three against the Browns. The game in which Garrett recorded both of his tie-based sacks.
What’s the point of all this? Merely to say that Myles Garrett’s talents are squandered on an awful team, and squandered by his own choosing. While he made a big public stink about demanding a trade request, nobody ever took it seriously. He chose the money and pretended that he really believed the Browns might be good. But he knew they wouldn’t be.
In fact, since the Browns drafted Myles Garrett, they have only had two non-losing seasons. And the bar is so low for Cleveland that Kevin Stefanski won the Coach of the Year both times. And they finished second and third in the division in those two years. Granted, they did beat the Steelers in the playoffs, and Pittsburgh hasn’t ever won a game with Watt.
In a year in which Micah Parsons successfully managed to force the Cowboys to trade him, Myles Garrett re-signed with the Browns. And the Browns are 2-8, and Garrett is looking like the Defensive Player of the Year again. Was it worth it? I’m not as optimistic about Shedeur Sanders’ future as Josina Anderson—but then again, nobody is.
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