Berea, Ohio- although the defensive wing of the Cleveland Browns, Myles Garrett, registered its fourth consecutive season with 14 or more captures in 2024 and continued to establish itself as one of the largest pass runners of its generation, its achievements felt holes in the middle in the middle of a 3- 14 finish.
Before another lost year, the sixth losing season he has suffered since he entered the NFL in 2017, Garrett on multiple occasions declared that his desire that his personal praise is paired with the success of the team.
“It’s a good achievement,” Garrett said at the end of December after joining the member of the Fame Lawrence Taylor as the only players in the history of the League with at least 12 catches in five consecutive seasons.
“But we remember ‘Lt’ because he won and did all those things.”
On Monday, Garrett issued a statement requesting an exchange of Cleveland, who wrote it with the general selection number 1 in the 2017 draft. In part, Garrett said: “My desire to win and compete in the largest stages will not allow me to be accommodating”.
Multiple sources of the team told ESPN after the request for trade on Monday that the Browns have no plans to exchange Garrett, the defensive player of the NFL prevailing year and finalist for the award again this season. Cleveland, who has the general selection number 2 in the NFL 2025 draft, faces a low season occupied with an evident field marshal question after the last injury and needs of Deshaun Watson on the list.
While Garrett’s trade could theory generate the necessary assets to replace the long -term list, there are obstacles to an agreement, in addition to the impact on the field of getting rid of a franchise that in December became the fourth most player fast in the history of the NFL to register 100 career captures.
Twice in the last month, the general manager of the Browns, Andrew Berry, publicly declared that he had no intention of trade to Garrett. In the Senior Bowl last week, he told journalists that he would not mean a hypothetical offer of two first round selections for the cornerstone of the franchise. In addition, he said he was open to a new agreement for Garrett, who is two remaining years in the extension of five years and $ 125 million that made him a quarter of the best paid in 2020.
Garrett’s commercial application will now prove the limits of Berry’s resolution.
However, the nature of the Garrett contract and the Browns cover situation could make a trade unpleasant for Cleveland. In recent years, the organization has been aggressive in the restructuring of contracts to release short -term limit space and push limit successes to future years. The Browns have done it with Garrett’s contract and, therefore, negotiating it before June 1 would bring a high dead bumper of $ 36 million. An exchange after June 1 would come with a dead capitalization charge of $ 14.8 million and limit savings of almost $ 5 million. But any Draft selection recovered by Cleveland would be in 2026 and future years, preventing the team from adding the young taxpayers they need for a quick change in 2025.
The Browns already have more than $ 60 million on the limit of 2025, but the NFL allows the equipment to carry out the capitalization space not used in the following year of the League. The Browns will carry out about $ 50 million in space and make additional movements to meet the limit before the free agency is opened.
In recent years, Star passes exchanges have obtained significant yields from the equipment. In 2018, Khalil Mack, 27, was changed from the then Oakland Raiders to the Chicago Bears. Oakland received two first -round teams, a third round selection and a selection of sixth round for Mack, while sending a second round and a fifth round selection of Chicago.
And the last low season, the New York giants exchanged a second round selection, a fifth round selection and exchanged fifth round selections with the Carolina Panthers by the Brian Burns edge corridor.
Garrett, a six-time Pro Bowler professional and four times All-Pro Selection, will turn 30 in December. The 2022 exchange for Watson left Cleveland without a first round selection for three consecutive seasons and the Browns renounced an additional draft capital to obtain the old Pro Bowler, in addition to giving it a fully guaranteed agreement of $ 230 million. The movement has left Cleveland with one of the oldest lists in the league and a shortage of young talents in economic rookie agreements.
Since his debut in Cleveland, Watson has published one of the lowest total QBR in the NFL and has suffered injuries that ended the season in consecutive years. It is likely that a significant portion of the 2025 season will be lost after again presenting its Achilles’ right tendon, only three months removed from its initial surgery. Berry has said that the team’s seafaring room will look different in 2025 and the organization has been reflecting on additions both in free agency and the draft.
Despite the three-win season, one that followed a record of 11-6 and a trip to the Commodines round, Berry has been optimistic that the team can quickly reverse their fortune, pointing out the success of the Washington commanders , who like the one who likes the Browns celebrated the selection No. 2 last year.
The question now is whether Garrett will be close to help Browns in those efforts.