Myles Garrett requests a trade from Cleveland Browns in bombshell statement

Myles Garrett has requested a commercialized from the Cleveland Browns and announced his tendency to permission the squad successful a connection connected Monday morning.

The antiaircraft end, 29, says helium wants to articulation a squad that is simply a Super Bowl contender.

'As a kid dreaming of the NFL, each I focused connected was the eventual extremity of winning a Super Bowl - and that extremity fuels maine contiguous much than ever,' helium wrote. 

'My emotion for the assemblage of Northeast Ohio and the unthinkable fanbase of the Cleveland Browns has made this 1 of the toughest decisions of my life. These past 8 years person shaped maine into the antheral that I americium today.

'While I've loved calling this metropolis my home, my tendency to triumph and vie connected the biggest stages won't let maine to beryllium complacent. 

'The extremity was ne'er to spell from Cleveland to Canton, it has ever been to vie for and triumph a Super Bowl.

'With that successful mind, I person requested to beryllium traded from the Cleveland Browns.'

The Browns finished the play past successful the AFC North with a miserable 3-14 grounds and adjacent though the existent play isn't over, the team's prospects for adjacent play look peculiarly bleak.

But Garrett is coming disconnected different formidable run - his 4th consecutive twelvemonth with 14-plus sacks. He is simply a finalist for antiaircraft subordinate of the year.

Starting backmost Deshaun Watson, who missed astir of the run with a torn Achilles, tore the aforesaid Achilles again successful a setback connected his roadworthy to betterment and it is unclear if helium volition play astatine each successful 2025. 

The Browns person the 2nd prime successful the 2025 NFL Draft and galore expect them to instrumentality a quarterback. 

Garrett signed a five-year, $125million hold to his woody successful 2020 and has 2 years near connected his presumption successful Cleveland. 

However Browns wide manager Andrew Berry could not person been firmer implicit his stance connected trading Garrett erstwhile quizzed astir the prima man's aboriginal past week.

'I deliberation you tin presume that we bash expect astatine immoderate constituent doing a 3rd declaration with Myles. We privation him to discontinue here,' helium said.

He was besides asked if helium would cull a commercialized connection Garrett that included 2 first-round picks.

'Correct. You tin enactment that connected the record,' helium said.

But with galore of the NFL heavyweights present officially connected precocious alert aft Garrett's statement, Berry volition person his resoluteness enactment to the test.