For a period of time, a whiteboard in the defensive line room sported the number “25” next to Garrett’s name. Cesaire said he has joked with Garrett about breaking the sack record, both this year and last year, and wanted Garrett to write down a number. At first, Garrett wrote down 24. But then as they continued to think, they decided 25 was the ultimate number.
That number “25” has stemmed from the tape Garrett wears on his wrists each game. Since the first game of the 2025 season, during pregame, Garrett writes 25 on his wrist in Sharpie as a reminder of his goal.
“I set that goal three years ago for myself,” Garrett said on Dec. 5. “I had a dream I had that written on my tape and I was going to get 25, and I feel like that was just meant to be.”
Cesaire said there is also a standing count of Garrett’s career sacks, which currently sits at 124.5. He started the season at 102.5, and through 17 weeks of the season, has added to that overall number.
Over the course of 16 games, Garrett also broke the Browns’ single-season sack record that he set in 2021 and tied in 2022. He became the first player since 1982 to record 12 sacks in six consecutive seasons in Week 11 and set the record for the most sacks by a player under the age of 30.
Garrett has three games this season with at least three sacks, with his best game of the season against the Patriots in Week 8 with five sacks. He also recorded at least a half of a sack in nine straight games, the longest streak of his career.
“He always keeps the main thing the main thing. ‘I just wanna win. I just wanna win.’ That’s what he keeps saying,” Cesaire said. “And you can see the amount of effort that he’s putting out there. I mean, if you watch him, that’s just a normal game. There’s not a lot of defensive ends that can say that 60 percent of the snaps they get hit by four hands, almost all the time. And in some cases, it was six hands and still winning. Not just winning like the ball’s out. I mean, almost getting to the quarterback with two guys on him. That’s the level of effort that he was giving. And it’s seeped over to all the other guys. The other guys see Myles going fast, playing violent, playing with precision and just being decisive with all his rushes, and they start doing the same thing.”
Cesaire saw another critical shift in Garrett heading into Week 8 against the Patriots.
Garrett had gone three consecutive weeks without a sack from Week 4-6, before breaking that drought with a sack in Week 7. He had five total sacks on the season through the first seven games. Teams were using double or triple teams, as well as chip blocks, to try and neutralize Garrett.
“He had told me, ‘Hey, I don’t feel like I’m myself,'” Cesaire recalled. “He was like, ‘Don’t take me out in practice.’ I said, ‘You wanna take every rep? He said, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna take every rep.’ And I said, ‘OK, go ahead.’ If one guy could do it, it was him. And you can see he’s tired, but he’s just going and he’s emptying the tank every single snap. And I (thought), this guy is freaking special.”