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PlayerMyles Garrett · EDGE, Los Angeles Rams, Model Score 99.0Be the Rams GM

Myles Garrett

Los Angeles Rams
Pos EDGE
Updated October 8, 2026
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Model Score

99.0 MODEL
2018
87.7
2019
80.5
2020
93.0
2021
96.0
2022
93.0
2023
88.3
2024
96.0
2025
99.0

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

Six straight Pro Bowls plus four 1st-team All-Pros plus the 2023 DPOY plus back-to-back tier 1 (#1) STTM finishes locks Garrett in as the best edge defender of his generation. The 1st overall pick pedigree plus 100+ career sacks plus the multi-year STTM dominance puts him on a Hall-of-Fame trajectory regardless of how the late chapters close. The 2026 question is whether Garrett wins his second DPOY or whether the broader voting catches up to the multi-year STTM dominance.

Garrett came out of Texas A&M as the Cleveland Browns' 1st-round pick (1st overall) in 2017, the consensus top defensive prospect in his class. He has made six straight Pro Bowls (2018, 2020-2024), earned four 1st-team All-Pro selections (2021-2024), and won the 2023 Defensive Player of the Year. His career sack total has crossed 100 across nine NFL seasons. His STTM career runs tier 1 (#3) in 2021, tier 1 (#4) in 2022, tier 1 (#6) in 2023, tier 1 (#1) peak in 2024, and tier 1 (#1) in 2025.

Strengths

  • Six straight Pro Bowls plus four 1st-team All-Pros plus the 2023 DPOY plus back-to-back tier 1 (#1) STTM finishes establishes the best edge defender of his generation.
  • 100+ career sacks across nine NFL seasons puts him on the all-time top-30 leaderboard with multiple years still ahead.

Concerns

  • Cleveland's broader offensive identity around QB instability plus the lack of postseason runs limits the playoff résumé that closes a Hall-of-Fame case.
  • Age 30 plus nine years of pass-rush wear puts the late-prime structural decline question on every 2027 and beyond projection.

What to watch: Whether Garrett wins his second DPOY in 2026 plus crosses 110 career sacks, the threshold for closing the gap between the multi-year STTM dominance and the DPOY voting.

Myles Garrett Injury StatusIR

Myles Garrett is listed on injured reserve (Knee), reported Sep 27, with a return date of Oct 18. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 1 · Cleveland Browns · 2017
Texas A&M (SEC)
Taken
#1
where he actually went
Consensus board
1st
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#89
among EDGE in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2016 · 12 games · partial record
8.5 sacks, 15 TFL, 18 pressures, 33 tackles

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Coming out
4.64s
40 yd
33 reps
Bench
41"
Vertical
128"
Broad
What this pick usually becomes

Of the 100 players taken as a top-10 pick between 2012 and 2021, 83% earned a second contract and 75% became starters. The median one started 81 career games.

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