Browns defensive end Myles Garrett is on a run of 14 sacks in his last five games that has put him on pace to set the NFL’s single-season sack record before the end of the season.

Garrett is up to 18 sacks on the year and needs five over the final six weeks in order to pass Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt. Garrett said on Friday that his current position means that he’s thinking about more than just whether he’ll end the season as the new record holder.

“I don’t even think about it as a want — I just think about something that I’m going to knock down,” Garrett said, via Joe Reedy of the Associated Press. “It’s already been written in my mind that it’s going just how far I’m going to take it. So, just going to go out there and do what I do, and whatever number I end up at.”

Garrett will be tangling with 49ers left tackle Trent Williams on Sunday and Williams joked this week about losing sleep because of the prospect of facing “one of the best to ever play.” If Williams and his teammates aren’t able to slow down Garrett’s roll, he’ll move even closer to a statistical testament to that status.

Let's hear it for the MVP Myles Lorenz Garrett!

Let's hear it for Andrew Berry for keeping this guy.

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  2. Historically, he’s had it tough against Williams and historically, his worst month of the season has been December so I’m glad to see he’s still motivated. But expecting to continue like he has these last 4 games is a big stretch. Didn’t he go like 4 games in a row this year without a sack?

  3. Some teams with some real bad OLs/Sack Happy QBs left on this schedule. Getting even 1 against Purdy and Trent Williams this weekend would be huge to Myles chances of setting a nearly insurmountable sack record

  4. Myles has a chance at MVP for sure. All that needs to happen is the Browns win out to go 9-8, and he continues his sack pace from the past 4 games, which will put him at 37.5 for the season. If that happens, he’s a lock!

  6. Not 1, not 2, not 3…..

    Pssss. Hey Myles, it’s December.

    Uhhhh, ya know almost getting the record is just as good as beating am I right?

  9. This feels like the jinxiest jinx that ever jinxed. Hopefully he was knocking on wood when he said this.

  11. Trent Williams saying that about you has to be amazing. I’m a chef and that’s the equivalent of like Gordon Ramsey saying I’m coming over to cook against him tomorrow he’s losing sleep. 

  13. I love a confident player, but this is just coming across as arrogance. A humility check may be coming.

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