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Cleveland Browns All-Pro edge rusher Myles Garrett nearly tied the single-season sack record on Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. Instead, he was credited a half-sack on Josh Allen.
Mason Graham was given the sack before the statisticians split the sack about an hour after it was deemed. Garrett was chasing Allen before he fell to the ground. Graham touched Allen prior to Garrett touching him.
Garrett now stands at 22.0 sacks. He needs one sack in the next two weeks to break Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt’s 22.5 single-season sack record. Watt tied Strahan for the record in 2021.
Garrett could break the record against the Pittsburgh Steelers next Sunday in Cleveland.
Myles Garrett credited with 0.5 sack on this play.
He is now 1 sack away from setting a new single-season record.pic.twitter.com/MYm9lkt8Zh
— NFL (@NFL) December 21, 2025
Heading into Week 13, Garrett had a whopping 18 sacks.
Garrett had four sacks in the Browns’ Week 12 win over the Las Vegas Raiders and was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week. His 14 sacks in the five-game stretch surpassed Strahan’s 12 1/2 in 2001 for most in that span since stats became an official stat in 1982.
Garrett had a team-record five sacks in the Browns’ Week 8 game against the New England Patriots, passing Watt on the NFL’s all-time sack list. Garrett currently has 124 sacks, while Watt has 115.0.
Both selected in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft, the AFC North rivals have been compared to one another throughout their career. Each had seven sacks in their rookie years and Garrett was ahead by a half at the end of the 2018 season, but then Watt pulled away in a big way from 2019-21.
This season has been dominated by Garrett, however. Watt has only seven sacks this year.
Watt will miss his second consecutive game on Sunday after he suffered a partially collapsed lung after undergoing a dry needling treatment session at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Dec. 10.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Myles Garrett Inches Closer to Breaking T.J. Watt’s Sack Record After Controversial Ruling
