Dawgs By Nature
Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has been terrorizing opposing quarterbacks from the moment he stepped on the field after the franchise made him the No. 1 overall selection in the 2017 NFL Draft.
Entering the 2025 season, Garrett had already established himself as Cleveland’s all-time leader in sacks with 102.5 and the single-season leader with 16, which he notched in both 2021 and 2022.
Garrett’s 12 sacks in six consecutive seasons are the first by a player since Lawrence Taylor hit the mark in five consecutive seasons with the New York Giants from 1985 to 1989. He is also just one of four players in league history to have four or more sacks in a game three times, joining Chandler Jones, Karl Mecklenburg, and Hall of Famer Reggie White.
Now in his eighth season, Garrett continues to put up numbers that seem hard to believe.
Garrett, who has at least one sack in eight consecutive games, long ago blew past his team record for sacks in a season, as he tallied his 17th sack in Week 12 against the Las Vegas.
After being credited with 1.5 sacks in Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bears, Garrett has a career-high 21.5 sacks, just one away from the official NFL record of 22.5 co-held by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt.
Garrett is just one of 13 players with at least sacks in a season since the NFL made sacks an official stat in 1982, and his current sack total is more than either the San Francisco 49ers or New York Jets have posted as a team.
Garrett’s 124 sacks in 131 career games are an ongoing NFL record for the most sacks by a player before they turn 30 (he has two more games to add to that record), easily blowing away Reggie White, the previous record holder, who had 108.
Speaking of White, his best year for sacks was 21 in 1987. That season, he had a sack every 24.8 pass attempts, the best mark for a player with at least 18 sacks in a season – until Garrett came along.
Through 14 games this season, Garrett has sacked the quarterback once every 20.3 pass attempts, outpacing not only White, but also Strahan (one sack every 25.2 pass attempts) and Watt (one sack every 27.5 pass attempts) in their record-setting seasons.
It can be easy to take Garrett for granted since he has been performing at a high level for several years now. But the numbers he has put up this season, often while facing double- and triple-teams, have been remarkable.
And with three games still to go, there is no telling just what surprises Garrett may have in store before the final whistle blows on the 2025 regular season.
