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There was a thought that this could be the case ever since the Cleveland Browns ended their season at 3-14, but now it’s become official straight from the source. Superstar pass-rusher Myles Garrett wants out of Cleveland, and the Green Bay Packers would be wise to jump on the opportunity to bring in the generational talent to help them on their quest to win a Super Bowl.
The Packers won’t be the only team vying for Garrett’s services, of course. It’s also going to be hard to pry him away from the Browns considering he’s under contract through 2026.
Browns General Manager Andrew Berry was very clear while talking at the Senior Bowl that the Browns didn’t have any intentions to part way with the star pass-rusher they selected with the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft out of Texas A&M.
“We feel really good about Myles obviously as a big piece of our future. We’re looking forward to him being on the field. Like I said in my (early January) press conference, we envision him going from Cleveland to Canton when his career is over,” Berry had said on January 28, according to Kelsey Russo of the team website.
Berry even went as far as to say that he wouldn’t trade Garrett for two first-round picks, but one has to wonder if he feels any different about that now that the 29-year-old has publicly expressed his desire to be traded.
The Browns want Garrett to go from Cleveland to Canton (aka the NFL Hall of Fame), but Garrett wants to see a few more stops at the Super Bowl along the way. He feels he won’t be able to accomplish those goals in Cleveland anymore.
“The goal was never to go from Cleveland to Canton, it has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl. With that in mind, I have requested to be traded from the Cleveland Browns,” Garrett said in a statement he released to social media.
Well, there goes any of the Browns’ trade leverage. Berry could have asked for two first-round picks and much more for Garrett had interested teams felt they had to pry the superstar away from his hands. Now that it’s known that Garrett wants out, that makes things a bit easier for any interested parties on the receiving end of the trade.
Green Bay absolutely needs pass-rush help and generational talents like Garrett don’t come available often. General Manager Brian Gutekunst would be wise to make sure that he throws the Packers’ hat into these sweepstakes once they open up.
Gutekunst has been risk-averse to big trades as a GM and that is the Packers’ way of doing business, but it’s not like getting a game-changing superstar like Garrett isn’t something that simply isn’t a topic of conversation at 1265 Lombardi Ave. In fact, in his season-ending press conference, Gutekunst alluded to the fact that for the right...
