Myles Garrett requests trade from Browns, wants to compete for Super Bowl

Things support getting worse for the Cleveland Browns.

Superstar walk rusher Myles Garrett requested a commercialized Monday pursuing the Browns’ disappointing 3-14 season.

“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,” Garrett, 29, said successful a statement. “The extremity was ne'er to spell from Cleveland to Canton, it has ever been to vie for and triumph a Super Bowl.”

The petition comes days aft Browns wide manager Andrew Berry said helium would not commercialized Garrett, telling reporters helium wouldn’t adjacent see an connection of 2 first-round picks.

“You tin enactment that connected the record,” Berry said, according to Cleveland.com.

Garrett is connected a Hall of Fame trajectory with 102.5 sacks implicit 8 NFL seasons, each with the Browns, who drafted him archetypal wide successful 2017.

The North Texas autochthonal is entering the 4th twelvemonth of a five-year, $125 cardinal contract.

A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Garrett won NFL Defensive Player of the Year past play and is simply a finalist for the grant this year, too. He recorded double-digit sacks successful each of the past 7 seasons, including 14 successful some of the past two.

But the Browns boast lone 2 playoff appearances and 1 postseason triumph during Garrett’s tenure. They plummeted from an 11-win play successful 2023 to past year’s disaster.

Cleveland owns the No. 2 prime successful April’s draught and is expected to beryllium successful the marketplace for a quarterback, with Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders considered the champion prospects astatine the position.

The Browns stay hamstrung by backmost Deshaun Watson, whom they beryllium $92 cardinal implicit the adjacent 2 seasons.

Watson precocious re-tore his close Achilles tendon, putting his 2025 play successful jeopardy. He has been among the NFL’s least-productive quarterbacks since the Browns acquired him from Houston successful 2022 for 3 first-round picks and gave him a afloat guaranteed $230 cardinal contract.

There is caller precedent for Pro Bowl walk rushers to beryllium traded.

In 2018, the Chicago Bears traded 4 draught picks, including a brace of archetypal rounders, to the then-Oakland Raiders for Khalil Mack, who was 27 astatine the time.

Last spring, the Giants sent a second-round prime and a fifth-round prime to the Carolina Panthers for Brian Burns, who was entering his property 26 season.