Garrett made NFL historical past all through the 2025 season
Kelsey Russo
Myles Garrett culminated his historic 2025 season with the very best accolade.
Garrett was unanimously named Thursday the AP Defensive Player of the Year on the NFL Honors. It is the second time in his profession that he has received the award, following his third consecutive nomination as a finalist.
“(Garrett is) the most dominant defensive lineman I’ve ever coached,” line of defense coach Jacques Cesaire mentioned. “A competitive leader. A guy that can literally do whatever he wants out there. He started the year with a purpose, and winning this (is) the ultimate culmination of all the hard work that he’s put in since the offseason, preseason and regular season. Even though the year didn’t end the way we wanted it to, obviously, he never wavered. He never showed any signs of slowing down, and he just kept one singular focus on ‘I’m going to do my job to try and help this team win.'”
Garrett made historical past all through the season, crowning his ninth NFL season with setting the NFL single-season sack file in Week 18 along with his twenty third sack. He additionally broke the Browns single-season sack file that he set in 2021 and tied in 2022.
He broke different information all through the 2025 season as properly, as Garrett turned the primary participant since 1982 to file 12 sacks in six consecutive seasons when he recorded his twelfth sack in Week 11. He set the file for probably the most sacks by a participant below the age of 30, surpassing Reggie White. He can also be the primary participant in NFL historical past to file a minimum of 14 sacks in 4 consecutive seasons.
“There are no words to describe when you go on a journey with a young man. I mean, that’s what football is about,” Cesaire mentioned. “He won on just the most normal call that we have and of course, he did it his fashion with probably the fastest get off I’ve ever seen in my whole entire life. it was awesome. It was completely awesome. Nobody knows it, but Jim (Schwartz) had told us to hoist him up. So, I just grabbed his tree trunk leg, put it on top of my shoulder and lifted him up. And it was just such a great feeling just to see his teammates and just everybody rush him. And so, I’m happy for him.”
Garrett had three video games through the 2025 season with a minimum of three sacks, along with his greatest sport of the season in opposition to the Patriots in Week 8 with 5 sacks. He not solely set a season-high with 5 sacks, but in addition broke his personal Browns’ file for probably the most sacks in a sport.
Garrett’s 5 sacks in Week 8 had been additionally probably the most sacks by an NFL participant in a sport this season. He recorded a minimum of a half of a sack in 9 straight video games, the longest streak of his profession, and 12 whole video games.
In addition to his 23 sacks, Garrett led the league with 33 tackles for loss through the common season setting a profession excessive in tackles for loss. His 33 tackles for loss are additionally the second-most by a participant in a single season since 2000, trailing solely J.J. Watt who totaled 39 tackles for loss in 2012. Garrett added 60 tackles and 39 quarterback hits, in addition to one go defensed and three compelled fumbles.
His particular person accomplishments led to total success for the Browns’ protection through the 2025 season. Cleveland allowed the third-fewest passing yards per sport, giving up simply 167.2 yards per sport, in addition to the fourth-fewest whole yards allowed per sport at 283.6. The Browns had the third-most crew sacks in 2025 with 53 whole sacks probably the most by a Browns crew in a season and ranked first in tackles for loss with a complete of 117.
“To be on the field and watch it and see it and for him to do the things he does at his size against a great Hall of Fame player, of course you’re in awe, 100 percent,” safeties coach Ephraim Banda mentioned in December 2025. “Just the situations, you just can’t believe what you see. And we’ll watch it in the safety room and replay it like 10, 15 times. [] It’s truly special. It’s God-given. He does a great job. And also, I’ll say about Myles, man, you want to talk about a guy who’s came in here and worked hard from day one, he’s done that and he’s reaping the benefits from that.”
Garrett earned a lot of accolades following the 2025 season in recognition of his efficiency on the sector. He was voted the PFWA 2025 Defensive Player of the Year, in addition to named to the PFWA All-NFL crew and All-AFC Team. He was voted the Sporting News’ Defensive Player of the Year, in addition to AP First Team All-Pro honors for the fifth time in his nine-year profession.
As Cesaire mirrored on the season Garrett produced on the sector and his achievements as a participant, he additionally seemed towards the longer term sharing how he inspired Garrett to make the NFL single-season sack file unbreakable in addition to set the brand new single-game file.
“Me and him talk about the Japanese culture, and I said, ‘This is the way Samurais sharpen their sword with precision.’ And he does just that,” Cesaire mentioned. “He is very, very meticulous and intentional with the way he trains and gets ready for a full season. And my hope one day is that he leads us to a playoff victory, deep into a playoff run. So, everybody in the world can see just what type of a great player he truly is.”