CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 Myles Garrett capped his record-setting season with another honor on Saturday morning. <\/p>\n
He was selected to the AP All-Pro first team for 2025, his fifth first-team honor in his nine-year career. He\u2019s also been voted second team twice.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s Will Anderson Jr. and Green Bay\u2019s Micah Parsons. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Garrett, 30, is fresh off setting the NFL single-season sack record with his lone sack on Joe Burrow during last Sunday\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s history,\u201d Kevin Stefanski, fired on Monday, said after the game. \u201cHe\u2019s the sack king. That\u2019s unbelievable. They\u2019ve 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\u2019s 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\u2019s real. These guys care about each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a more valuable player in the NFL,\u201d defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz said on Nov. 28. <\/p>\n
Garrett\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Garrett earned high praise and accolades as he chipped away at the record down the stretch.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a freakish talent,\u201d Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who\u2019s team shut Garrett out in Week 17, said. \u201cHe\u2019s a game wrecker. He provides the wave that others ride, and particularly in that environment when you\u2019re working on sideline counts and one-dimensional passing circumstances etc., it is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nobody like Myles Garrett,\u201d he said on the Fox Sports broadcast a few weeks beforehand. \u201cI\u2019m truly hoping he breaks this sack record. … Lawrence Taylor is the best defensive player I\u2019ve ever seen in my lifetime. But I think this kid is close, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garrett had already gotten a shoutout from the legendary LT before the Raiders game, after Garrett had broken Taylor\u2019s record of five straight seasons with at least 12 sacks, tacking on a sixth.<\/p>\n
\u201cTon of respect for how this dude goes about his business\u2026\u201d Taylor posted on X. \u201cHe\u2019s been doing it on another level for a long time now\u2026 there\u2019s only so many who truly alter gameplans and keep the other side up @ night. Keep doing your thing Myles !!!!\u201d<\/p>\n
His own teammates, who carried him on their shoulders after he set the record, couldn\u2019t have been happier for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody knows he\u2019s a Hall of Fame player and his name\u2019s going to go down in history and we\u2019re all here to witness it,\u201d cornerback Denzel Ward said. \u201cYou can\u2019t say enough great things about Myles Garrett and what he\u2019s able to do on the football field and yeah, it\u2019s just great to see.\u201d<\/p>\n