Myles Garrett

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Experience: 8 years

Height: 6-4

Age: 28

Weight: 272 lbs

College: Texas A&M

2024 SEASON

Solo

17
SCK

7
FF

2
INT

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Year

Defense

Days

	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK	SFTY	PDEF	INT	TDS	YDS	AVG	LNG
Sundays	9	19	17	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Months

	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK
November	1	5	4	1	3
October	4	6	5	1	0
September	4	8	8	0	4

Opponents by Group

	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK
vs AFC Teams	5	13	11	2	6
vs NFC Teams	4	6	6	0	1
Outside Own Division	7	16	15	1	7
vs Own Division	2	3	2	1	0

Opponents by Team

	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK
Baltimore Ravens	1	1	0	1	0
Cincinnati Bengals	1	2	2	0	0
Dallas Cowboys	1	2	2	0	1
Jacksonville Jaguars	1	2	2	0	1
Las Vegas Raiders	1	3	3	0	2
New York Giants	1	1	1	0	0
Philadelphia Eagles	1	3	3	0	0
Los Angeles Chargers	1	5	4	1	3
Washington Commanders	1	0	0	0	0

Outcomes

	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK	SFTY	PDEF	INT	TDS	YDS	AVG	LNG
Losses	7	16	15	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wins	2	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Stadiums

	G	Total	Solo	AST	SCK
Huntington Bank Field	5	11	9	2	4
Allegiant Stadium	1	3	3	0	2
EverBank Stadium	1	2	2	0	1
Northwest Stadium	1	0	0	0	0
Lincoln Financial Field	1	3	3	0	0

Biography

Career Transactions

Selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round (1st overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft.

Awards/Honors

2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, the first Brown to win the award.
Five-time Pro Bowl selection (2018, 2020-23), including starting honors from 2020-23. Tied with DT/DE Bob Gain (five) and NT Michael Dean Perry (five) for the most Pro Bowl selections by a Browns defensive player.
Five-time All-Pro, earning first team honors in 2020, 2021 and 2023.
Named to the PFWA All-NFL team from 2020-23, the only NFL player to make the team each of the past four seasons. Also named to the 2017 PFWA All-Rookie team.
2020 Browns Walter Payton Man of the Year.
2020 AFC Defensive Player of the Month of October.
Named AFC Defensive Player of the Week in Week 4 in 2020, Week 3 in 2021 and Week 7 in 2023.
Voted the 2021 PFWA Dino Lucarelli Good Guy.
2017 Browns Maurice Bassett Award winner, given to team's most outstanding rookie during training camp.

Career Transactions

Selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round (1st overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft.

Awards/Honors

2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, the first Brown to win the award.
Five-time Pro Bowl selection (2018, 2020-23), including starting honors from 2020-23. Tied with DT/DE Bob Gain (five) and NT Michael Dean Perry (five) for the most Pro Bowl selections by a Browns defensive player.
Five-time All-Pro, earning first team honors in 2020, 2021 and 2023.
Named to the PFWA All-NFL team from 2020-23, the only NFL player to make the team each of the past four seasons. Also named to the 2017 PFWA All-Rookie team.
2020 Browns Walter Payton Man of the Year.
2020 AFC Defensive Player of the Month of October.
Named AFC Defensive Player of the Week in Week 4 in 2020, Week 3 in 2021 and Week 7 in 2023.
Voted the 2021 PFWA Dino Lucarelli Good Guy.
2017 Browns Maurice Bassett Award winner, given to team's most outstanding rookie during training camp.

Key Notes

Set Browns single-season record with 16 sacks in 2021 and tied the mark in 2022.
Is the only NFL player to record at least 14 sacks in each of the past three seasons.
Is the only NFL player with at least 10 sacks in each of the past six seasons. Is the only Brown with multiple double-digit sack seasons.
Joined Reggie White, John Randle, DeMarcus Ware, Jared Allen, Bruce Smith, Lawrence Taylor as the only NFL players to record six straight 10-sack seasons.
Holds Browns record for career sacks (88.5), officially setting the mark with two sacks against the Patriots on Oct. 16, 2022, surpassing Clay Matthews Jr. (62.0).
Registered one sack vs. NYJ on Dec. 28, 2023, to increase his career total to 88.5, the third-most by any NFL player in their first 100 games.
Helped Browns defense lead the NFL in total yards allowed and passing yards allowed in 2023.
Set Browns single-game record with 4.5 sacks against Chicago on Sept. 26, 2021.
Recorded first NFL touchdown following a strip-sack fumble recovery for a 15-yard touchdown on Dec. 12, 2021. Also scored a touchdown following a 22-yard fumble return during the 2022 Pro Bowl.
Reached 50 career sacks (50.5) in Week 6 in 2021, becoming third-fastest to reach the mark (57 games) behind only Hall of Famers Reggie White (40) and Derrick Thomas (54).
Set a Browns record with at least one sack in six consecutive games (Weeks 2-7) in 2020 and tied the mark in 2021 (Weeks 5-10).
Owns 25 career games with multiple sacks, a Browns record.
On first NFL play, dropped Josh McCown for an 8-yard loss on Oct. 8, 2017, and finished the game with two sacks to became first No. 1 overall pick with multiple sacks in first game and first Brown with at least two sacks in his NFL debut since 1988.
Joined DT Tommy Kelly (2004 Raiders) and LB Barkevious Mingo (2013 Browns) as only rookies since 2004 with a sack in each of first three NFL games.
Earned first-team All-America honors at Texas A&M.
Led the SEC in sacks in 2015.

Personal

Native of Arlington, Texas and attended Martin High School. Became first person in school history to be drafted into the NFL.
Brother, Sean Williams, was selected No. 17 overall by the New Jersey Nets in 2007 and has professional experience in the NBA and internationally.
Sister, Brea Garrett, was an NCAA champion weight thrower on Texas A&M's track and field team.
Enjoys studying dinosaurs in his free time. His love of dinosaurs started as a kid after he first saw "Jurassic Park".
Writes his own poetry.
Majored in architecture and minored in geology at Texas A&M.

Beyond Football

Finalized a deal in 2023 to purchase a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In his seventh year of serving on the Waterboys organization and his fifth as the active player captain. The foundation works to bring clean water to communities in need in East Africa. In his role as captain, Garrett leads a team of active NFL players committed to using their platform to engage their fans in the clean water crisis. Since its launch, Waterboys has funded 83 wells serving more than 500,000 people. Roughly 844 million people around the world are without basic water access -- more than twice the population of the United States. In 2020, traveled to Tanzania for a two-week trip to help install wells.
In collaboration with local artist Glen Infante, unveiled a "Cleveland is the Reason" mural as part of Infante's #VoicesofCLE public art project, which was created in 2020 following civil unrest over social justice issues. The mural was inspired by Cleveland icons of sports, culture, and rock 'n' roll and features paintings of Jesse Owens, LeBron James, Jim Brown, Machine Gun Kelly, Tracy Chapman and Toni Morrison.
In support of families that lost a loved one to police brutality, Garrett covered funeral costs for David McAtee, who was shot and killed by police in Louisville, Ky. in May 2020.
Teamed up with the Cleveland Hope Exchange and local businesses to provide more than 24,000 pounds of food and additional resources to those in need in 2020.
Participated in My Cause, My Cleats supporting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in 2018, which his grandmother, Pauline White Johnson, was diagnosed with. Supported the Maya Angelou Foundation in 2020. Supported Mission of Haiti in 2021, serving as an advocate of Haiti after spending time there on a mission trip in 2016. Supported Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland in 2022. Supported The Jurassic Foundation for dinosaur research and Von's Vision Foundation for eye-care in 2023.

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