Myles Garrett's former Browns teammate calls him 'best pass rusher I've ever seen' as he nears sack record

Myles Garrett is connected gait to shatter a grounds that has stood for much than 2 decades.

The Cleveland Browns prima has 3 much games to surpass Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt's single-season grounds of 22.5 sacks — helium needs conscionable 1 much to tie.

Garrett has been a first-team All-Pro successful 4 of the past 5 seasons, but this play is by acold the champion of his eventual Hall of Fame career.

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Cleveland Browns antiaircraft extremity Myles Garrett (95) riles up the assemblage against the Tennessee Titans during the 4th fourth astatine Huntington Bank Field.  (Ken Blaze/Imagn Images)

Joe Thomas went against Myles Garrett successful signifier for conscionable 1 play — Thomas’ past twelvemonth successful the NFL was the aforesaid twelvemonth Garrett went archetypal wide retired of Texas A&M. He whitethorn beryllium biased, but helium got a idiosyncratic look astatine Garrett and gave him precocious praise.

"He's the champion antiaircraft walk rusher I've ever seen successful my full life," Thomas said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. "And that goes backmost to watching Reggie White erstwhile I was a kid erstwhile helium was with the Green Bay Packers winning a Super Bowl."

Garrett has been a lone agleam spot for the Browns passim his full tenure there, but that holds particularly existent this season, arsenic Cleveland is 3-11. Their record, though, makes Garrett’s play adjacent that overmuch much special, Thomas said.

Cleveland Browns antiaircraft extremity Myles Garrett (95) reacts during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, successful Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard)

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"Sacks are usually happening erstwhile the backmost has to clasp connected to the shot due to the fact that they're trying to propulsion the shot down the field. They're trying to compression the citrus a small spot much due to the fact that they request it. They're losing, right? So they're consenting to instrumentality much chances. They're consenting to fto their players spell 1 connected 1 up beforehand successful the blocking to beryllium capable to get much receivers down the field. When you're winning, you don't instrumentality those chances connected offense," Thomas explained. "And truthful the information that Myles is getting each these sacks connected a squad that's behind, by and large, conscionable adds to the information that this feline and what we're witnessing is 1 of the top performances successful sports history."

Garrett requested a commercialized from the Browns during the offseason, citing his tendency to win. However, a record-breaking, $160 cardinal declaration rapidly changed his mind, and to Garrett’s credit, helium is surviving up to each penny.

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