When things go as bad as they did for the Cleveland Browns, anything is on the table. Heading into the offseason, there was plenty of speculation about the possibility of a Myles Garrett trade.
During the season, Garrett put some pressure on the Cleveland front office with comments on the team’s future.
"First of all I want to win, and want the Browns to be able to put me and us in a position to win," Garrett told reporters back in December. “I’m not trying to rebuild. I’m trying to win right now. And I want that to be apparent when the season's over and we have those discussions. I want them to be able to illuminate and illustrate that for me so that it can be something I can see in the near future. Because that’s all we want to do.
"I want to stay loyal to a team that showed loyalty to me and faith in me by drafting me, but we have to do, at the end of the day, what's best for us."
Andrew Berry put the trade talk to sleep at the Senior Bowl
Cleveland’s general manager put the talk of a trade happening away on Tuesday at the Senior Bowl. Cleveland has no plans of trading their best player and former No. 1 overall pick.
“We always have a really good and direct two-way communication with our players (and) we feel really good about Myles, obviously, as a big piece of our future,” Berry said, via The Athletic. “We’re looking forward to him being on the field. Like I said in my (early January) press conference, we envision him going from Cleveland to Canton when his career is over.”
Garrett has two years left on his desk that pays him $25 million a year, which has been topped big time by nearly 10 million. It is very possible that the Browns make Garrett the highest-paid player on the defensive side of the football this offseason. Cleveland would not only be doing right by Garrett, but they would be doing it because he deserves it.
Cleveland’s star pass rusher has played in 117 games and has 102 sacks to his credit. Garrett is the reigning Defensive Player of the Year and a six-time Pro Bowler.
If Cleveland were to trade Garrett, they would likely never get anything close to his worth back. Garrett is a game wrecker on the defensive side of the football that is prepared for, unlike any player by opposing teams. Cleveland would be accepting defeat if they ever had to trade him.
