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The NFL offseason isn’t quote in full swing yet as the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are gearing up to play in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday in New Orleans. However, the big game hasn’t stopped the news cycle from churning as always.
On Monday, a massive variable got thrown into this offseason when superstar defensive end Myles Garrett requested a trade from the Cleveland Browns. Garrett has been arguably the best defensive player in football for the last five seasons and just about every team should be trying to get their hands on him.
Garrett’s production during his career in Cleveland speaks for itself. Over the last five years, he has been named First Team All Pro four times and won the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2023. During that time, he has racked up 72 sacks and 84 tackles for loss in just 80 games while forcing 14 fumbles. Any team that can bring him in immediately gets a major boost on defense.
Here are four teams that should be making a hard charge for Garrett this offseason.
The Buffalo Bills have been close to reaching a Super Bowl in the last five years, but they have consistently fallen short in each of those postseasons to some of the AFC’s best. Four times, those defeats came at the hands of Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
One of the Bills’ weaker spots of their team has been the pass rush. Ed Oliver is a very good interior rusher and Greg Rousseau took a big step forward in 2024, but Buffalo is still missing a true difference maker on their defensive line who can wreck a game with a few massive plays throughout 60 minutes.
What better way to try to get over the hump than to try snd bring Garrett in? The Bills are always going to have a great offense with Josh Allen at quarterback, no matter what their receiving talent looks like. They became somewhat of a ground and pound offense with James Cook in 2024 that can consistently move the chains and play the possession game, so adding to the defense seems like the best way forward in Buffalo. There are still questions in the secondary, but getting the best pass rusher in the game would be a titanic move.
Jim Harbaugh wasted no time establishing his culture and his identity in year one with the Chargers last year, but Los Angeles didn’t quote have the dudes to make a deep playoff run. Offensively, Justin Herbert dragged a team with a poor receiving core and a disastrous interior offensive line to a decent season. On defense, Jesse Minter established one of the most modernized schemes in the NFL, but the Chargers lacked difference makers on that side of the ball.
Myles Garrett qualifies as that difference maker that would accelerate the Chargers’ timeline heading into next year. Joey Bosa can’t seem to stay...
