Defensive End · Los Angeles Rams

Myles Garrett

No. 95 · 10th season

Myles Garrett lands in Los Angeles for roughly what a backup cost last year

There is something almost funny about the math. One of the most dominant defensive players of his generation — a two-time Defensive Player of the Year — just joined the Los Angeles Rams for a cap hit roughly comparable to what the team was paying a backup last season. The Rams, to put it plainly, got away with something.

Garrett has spent his career as the kind of player opposing offenses build entire game plans around. Two Defensive Player of the Year awards in hand, he now has his eye on something that has stood untouched for 23 years: the NFL's all-time sack record. That is not a passing ambition. That is a player who has done the math on his own career and decided he is close enough to say it out loud.

The move lands him in Los Angeles, in the same division as teams that are already paying attention. NFC West opponents have already taken notice — which is the reasonable response when a player of Garrett's caliber changes addresses. One subplot worth watching: Garrett says he wants to talk to Aaron Donald, the Rams legend who retired from the position Garrett now occupies. What Donald tells him — and whether Donald has any plans of his own — is an open question Garrett says he can't answer yet.

For the Rams, this is the kind of addition that reshapes what a defense can threaten. For Garrett, it is another leg of a chase that most people assumed was already settled history. The record has stood for 23 years. He is coming for it.

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