CLEVELAND, Ohio — Myles Garrett capped his record-setting season with another honor on Saturday morning.

He was selected to the AP All-Pro first team for 2025, his fifth first-team honor in his nine-year career. He’s also been voted second team twice.

He was the only Browns player to make the All-Pro team for 2025, either first or second. The other two first-team edge rushers are Houston’s Will Anderson Jr. and Green Bay’s Micah Parsons.

Next up for Garrett will be his second NFL Defensive Player of the Year award, which will be announced at the NFL Honors show on Feb. 5 in San Francisco. Garrett is a lock to repeat the award he first won in 2023.

Garrett, 30, is fresh off setting the NFL single-season sack record with his lone sack on Joe Burrow during last Sunday’s 20-18 victory over the Bengals. The historic sack, for a season total of 23.0, came with 5:04 left in the game. It broke the record of 22.5 set by Michael Strahan in 2001 and tied by T.J. Watt in 2021.

“That’s history,” Kevin Stefanski, fired on Monday, said after the game. “He’s the sack king. That’s unbelievable. They’ve been playing this game for a long time, and for him to go get that in the circumstances with the degree of difficulty in which he got it this season is unbelievable. He’s the Defensive Player of the Year. You can make him the MVP, if I had a vote. I think the reaction of his teammates is genuine. That’s real. These guys care about each other.”

Garrett set numerous records throughout the season, including becoming the first player since 1982 to record 12 sacks in six consecutive seasons when he reached the mark in Week 11. He also set the record for the most sacks by a player under age 30.

“I think you’d be hard pressed to find a more valuable player in the NFL,” defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz said on Nov. 28.

Garrett’s journey to the sack record included a five-sack outburst against the Patriots in Week 8 to break his own team record of 4.5, and a four-sack effort against Lamar Jackson in Week 11. He accomplished the feat with a three-game sackless streak that jeopardized the record, but had three games this season with at least three sacks, and recorded at least a half of a sack in nine straight games, the longest streak of his career.

In addition to his 23 sacks, Garrett led the league with 33 tackles for loss during the regular season, and set a career high in tackles for loss. He totaled 60 tackles and 39 quarterback hits, as well as one pass defensed and three forced fumbles.

Garrett earned high praise and accolades as he chipped away at the record down the stretch.

“He’s a freakish talent,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who’s team shut Garrett out in Week 17, said. “He’s a game wrecker. He provides the wave that others ride, and particularly in that environment when you’re working on sideline counts and one-dimensional passing circumstances etc., it is significant.”

Strahan, who noted after Garrett set the record that he did so in 17 games as opposed to his own 16, said beforehand he hoped he got it.

“There is nobody like Myles Garrett,” he said on the Fox Sports broadcast a few weeks beforehand. “I’m truly hoping he breaks this sack record. … Lawrence Taylor is the best defensive player I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. But I think this kid is close, in my opinion.”

Garrett had already gotten a shoutout from the legendary LT before the Raiders game, after Garrett had broken Taylor’s record of five straight seasons with at least 12 sacks, tacking on a sixth.

“Ton of respect for how this dude goes about his business…” Taylor posted on X. “He’s been doing it on another level for a long time now… there’s only so many who truly alter gameplans and keep the other side up @ night. Keep doing your thing Myles !!!!”

His own teammates, who carried him on their shoulders after he set the record, couldn’t have been happier for him.

“Everybody knows he’s a Hall of Fame player and his name’s going to go down in history and we’re all here to witness it,” cornerback Denzel Ward said. “You can’t say enough great things about Myles Garrett and what he’s able to do on the football field and yeah, it’s just great to see.”

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