Star de Myles Garrett requests Browns to deal with challenging

Star Defensive than Myles Garrett, NFL’s reigning defensive player in the year, has requested a trade from Cleveland Browns, he announced in a statement Monday.

“While I have loved calling this city my home, my desire to win and compete at the biggest phases does not allow me to be complacent. The goal was never to go from Cleveland to Canton, it’s always been to compete a Super Bowl, “Garrett said in the statement.

Myles Garrett has requested a trade.

His statement: pic.twitter.com/yx5q9exa0v

– Adam Schafter (@adamsch over) February 3, 2025

Garrett’s future in Cleveland had come under speculation in recent months after coming comments in which he said he would know the team’s offseason plans after a 3-14 season before joining the organization. The 29-year-old has two years left on the record-breaking five-year extension of $ 125 million, he signed by 2020, but no longer guaranteed wages.

At the end of December, Garrett said he did not want to undergo another reconstruction in Cleveland, which has the total election # 2 of the 2025 NFL draft. At the end of the sixth losing season he is facing since joining the league in 2017, Garrett said the 2024 season was more disappointing than Cleveland’s 0-16 season in his rookie season. When asked if an extension of this season would be related to his conversations with Cleveland’s higher-ups, Garrett said, “I mean, something is coming.”

In an episode of HBO’s “Hard Knocks”, which was sent on January 14, Garrett said he had spoken to Brown’s general manager Andrew Berry about how to make the most of the talent they have.

“We are closer than some might think we are,” Garrett said.

Twice in the last month, Berry said he has no intention of trading Garrett or entertaining offers for the six-time pro bowler and four-time all-pro selection. At his news conference at the end of the season, Berry said, “My expectation, expectation is that he will get a direct ticket from Cleveland to Canton at the end of his years and expect him to be here and withdraw, completely honestly.

Berry later told journalists in the Senior Bowl last week that he would not trade Garrett, even for a hypothetical offer of two choices of the first round.

This last season, Garrett became the first player since Sacks became an official state in 1982 to record 100 career bags before his 29th birthday. Garrett was named AP Defensive Player of the Year in the 2023 season, and his 14 sacks in 2024 were second in the NFL.

Browns initially chose Garrett with the total election # 1 in 2017 draft. Since entering the league, Garrett’s 102.5 sacks spur only Pittsburgh Steelers’ TJ Watt (108).