Is it time Myles Garrett got a new nickname?
Myles the Menace? Myles the Monster? Myles … the all-time single-season sack leader?
Monikers aside, Garrett is on a tear this season. He has a league-leading 18 sacks through 11 games for 3-8 Cleveland.
Yes, the Browns aren’t very good, but he sure is.
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Garrett has posted three games this season with two or more sacks. He had two against Cincinnati in Week 1, an unbelievable five against New England in Week 8, and then an uncanny four in Week 11 against Baltimore.
In Week 12, he had three against the Raiders.
The Browns, despite Garrett’s brilliance, lost three of those four games.
Now, to the all-time record.
The odds — Myles Garrett to break the single-season sack record (23+ sacks): -400 (bet $10 to win $12.50 total)
That record belongs to two people: Hall-of-Fame defensive end Michael Strahan — who recorded 22.5 sacks during the 2001-02 season with the New York Giants — and Pittsburgh’s four-time first-team All-Pro linebacker T.J. Watt, who tied Strahan during the 2021-22 season.
First, to Strahan.
Remarkably, he did not have a sack after the first two weeks of the 2001-02 season. However, he had three in Week 3, four in Week 5, two in both Weeks 6 and 7, and then 3.5 in Week 15, among a bunch of other games where he had between 0.5 and 1.5.
Through 11 games that season, Strahan had 15.5 sacks — 2.5 fewer than Garrett has today.
However, Strahan had just 16 games to set the record back then. Garrett has 17 games to pull off the feat.
As for Watt, the remarkable nature of his 2021-22 season is the fact that he missed two games that year and still tied the record.
Watt had 12.5 sacks through 11 weeks (nine games for him), and finished the season with 3.5 sacks in Week 13 and four in Week 17, among other strong individual defensive games.
Mathematically speaking, Garrett needs five sacks in the next six games to overtake Strahan.
Statistically speaking, Garrett has 13 sacks in the last four games.
In other words, we’ll be keeping an eye out for history over the next few weeks.
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