Defensive star Myles Garrett was claimed to have lost over $1 million just by playing a game in Australia, a game which the Los Angeles Rams lost 27-7 to the San Francisco 49ers
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 11: Myles Garrett #95 of the Los Angeles Rams warms up prior to the NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 11, 2026 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Myles Garrett reportedly lost more than $1 million after playing in Australia(Image: Quinn Rooney, Getty Images)
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A viral account on social media claimed that Myles Garrett lost over $1 million by playing in Australia.
Much has been made of how much money professional athletes tend to lose by playing on a California team, and with Garrett being traded to the Los Angeles Rams, the star is set to join that list of players expected to lose a sizeable chunk of their paychecks due to taxes.
However, a viral account on X claims that the star is slated to lose over $1 million simply by having played a game in Australia, one the Rams lost 27-7 to the San Francisco 49ers.
The popular ML Football account posted on X that Garrett was expected to receive a $1.17 million tax bill, having to pay $895,000 in Australian taxes in addition to the $761,000 federal tax he would have to pay. What's more, the 29-year-old will have to pay the state of California $273,000, culminating in the aforementioned bill.
The account posted a similar breakdown for star quarterback Matthew Stafford, claiming he would be losing almost 57 percent of his $2.2 million paycheck. However, a tax expert attempted to clear up any confusion, telling news.com.au, "That’s just their assumption at the 45 percent tax rate. It doesn’t automatically go straight to that, we do have a sliding tax scale.
"But it’s massive numbers that we’re talking about. If you’re earning that much, it’s a big cut of your income. The main thing is you’ve got to take work-related expenses out."
Fred Warner #54 of the San Francisco 49ers celebrates winning the NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 11, 2026 in Melbourne, Australia
Fred Warner and the San Francisco 49ers celebrated a win over the Los Angeles Rams in Australia(Image: Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
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Regardless of how much money he lost, Garrett was more focused on how he performed against the 49ers in Australia. He failed to record a single tackle for just the fourth time in 135 career NFL games and admitted that the player who suited up for the Rams was not who fans should expect moving forward.
"This was the worst version of myself that I've put out there, and I've got to be better," Garrett said to reporters at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. "I've got to find a way to recover and get back to the player I know I can be and I've shown that I've been before."
He declined to go into specifics regarding his fitness, even refusing to share which knee was bothering him. Garrett added, "I wasn't the player that I wanted to be, and I feel like I wasn't the player I've been before when I've stepped onto that field. I've got to do what I can to get back to that."
Despite his slow start, Garrett admitted that it was important for him and Los Angeles to have a difficult showing sooner rather than later as the Rams prepare to welcome all-world defense talent Aaron Donald back into the mix.
"We knew we were going to face some adversity this season," Garrett surmised. "It's game one. We've got to find if we are as resilient as we're saying."
In that same vein, Rams head coach Sean McVay believed his squad was "humbled" by the 49ers, downplaying any talk that Los Angeles' travel plans had anything to do with the 20-point defeat it received in front of 100,000 fans.
“The 49ers, they outplayed us in every facet,” McVay conceded to reporters. “I didn't do nearly a good enough job. This is a humbling day for us, and this will define us only if we allow it to.”
He added, "I didn't do a good enough job getting us ready to go. There were some opportunities where maybe the game could have flipped, but they deserve the win. They were ready to go, and we'll look at it. We'll see where we can improve and be better moving forward, but this is a good humbling day. This is what can sometimes happen in sports."