Could history happen against one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history?
Cleveland Browns superstar defensive end Myles Garrett is one sack away from setting the NFL record for registered sacks in a single season, a joint record held by Michael Strahan (22.5 sacks in 2001 with the New York Giants) and T.J. Watt (22.5 sacks in 2021 with the Pittsburgh Steelers). And this weekend, Garrett and the Browns host quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the AFC North-rival Steelers.
Garrett called the possibility of breaking the single-season sack record against Rodgers, a four-time NFL MVP, “special.”
“[Rodgers is] legendary himself, and it is a legendary report I am right here chasing,” Garrett stated on Friday about probably breaking the single-season sack report by bringing down Rodgers, per ESPN. “That’d be an awesome one to place an image on the wall with.”
By way of 15 video games this season, Garrett leads the NFL in sacks (22.0) and tackles for loss (32), whereas additionally tallying three compelled fumbles and 58 mixed tackles. Garrett, a four-time All-Professional and seven-time Professional Bowler, has registered double-digit sacks in every of the final eight seasons and is first in Browns historical past with 124.5 recorded sacks, 148 tackles for loss and 23 compelled fumbles.
At current, Garrett’s 22 sacks has him tied with three gamers for the third-most in a single season: Jared Allen (2011), Justin Houston (2014) and Mark Gastineau (1984).
Cleveland is 3-12 and at present has the No. 3 choose within the 2026 NFL Draft, whereas Pittsburgh is atop the AFC North at 9-6. With that stated, the Browns have gained every of their final three house matchups in opposition to the Steelers, and Pittsburgh will probably be with out star huge receiver DK Metcalf, who’s serving a two-game suspension for “initiating a bodily confrontation with a fan” in the course of the group’s Week 16 highway victory over the Detroit Lions.
Might the Browns get a two-for-one: Garrett breaks the sack report in opposition to the Steelers, and so they cease their division rival from clinching the AFC North title?
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