Issues hold getting worse for the Cleveland Browns.
Celebrity go rusher Myles Garrett requested a commerce Monday following the Browns’ disappointing 3-14 season.
“While I’ve loved calling this city my home, my desire to win and compete on the biggest stages won’t allow me to be complacent,” Garrett, 29, stated in a press release. “The goal was never to go from Cleveland to Canton, it has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl.”
The request comes days after Browns normal supervisor Andrew Berry stated he wouldn’t commerce Garrett, telling reporters he wouldn’t even take into account a proposal of two first-round picks.
“You can put that on the record,” Berry stated, in line with Cleveland.com.
Garrett is on a Corridor of Fame trajectory with 102.5 sacks over eight NFL seasons, all with the Browns, who drafted him first total in 2017.
The North Texas native is getting into the fourth yr of a five-year, $125 million contract.
A six-time Professional Bowl choice, Garrett gained NFL Defensive Participant of the Yr final season and is a finalist for the award this yr, too. He recorded double-digit sacks in every of the final seven seasons, together with 14 in each of the final two.
However the Browns boast solely two playoff appearances and one postseason win throughout Garrett’s tenure. They plummeted from an 11-win season in 2023 to final yr’s catastrophe.
Cleveland owns the No. 2 decide in April’s draft and is predicted to be available in the market for a quarterback, with Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders thought-about one of the best prospects on the place.
The Browns stay hamstrung by quarterback Deshaun Watson, whom they owe $92 million over the following two seasons.
Watson just lately re-tore his proper Achilles tendon, placing his 2025 season in jeopardy. He has been among the many NFL’s least-productive quarterbacks because the Browns acquired him from Houston in 2022 for 3 first-round picks and gave him a completely assured $230 million contract.
There may be current precedent for Professional Bowl go rushers to be traded.
In 2018, the Chicago Bears traded 4 draft picks, together with a pair of first rounders, to the then-Oakland Raiders for Khalil Mack, who was 27 on the time.
Final spring, the Giants despatched a second-round decide and a fifth-round decide to the Carolina Panthers for Brian Burns, who was getting into his age 26 season.
