{"id":910034,"date":"2026-06-04T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/910034\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:03:15","slug":"rams-rework-myles-garrett-contract-that-pays-2-time-dpoy-204-million-over-5-years-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/910034\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams rework Myles Garrett contract that pays 2-time DPOY $204 million over 5 years: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than a week after acquiring Myles Garrett in a seismic trade with the Cleveland Browns,<\/a> the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> have reportedly reworked the once-record-setting contract the two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year signed with the Browns last year.<\/p>\n

While the Rams and Garrett didn’t agree on a new deal, L.A. did alter the contract that now pays him $204 million over five years, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport<\/a>, who reported Thursday that Garrett was essentially making the same amount of money with Cleveland.<\/p>\n

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The slight change allowed the Rams to move the vesting date of his guarantees back a few months, per Rapoport.<\/p>\n

Garrett will make more in 2026 than he was before, around $37 million instead of $31.5 million, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler<\/a>. But Fowler reported that the Rams are simply borrowing from a future year on Garrett’s contract, so the total remains the same.<\/p>\n

The adjusted contract will convert option bonuses to signing bonuses in some cases, along with reconfiguring workout bonuses that were on the back end of the deal, Fowler reported.<\/p>\n

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In March 2025, the Browns inked Garrett to a four-year extension, reportedly complete with an average annual salary of $40 million.<\/a> At the time, that deal made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history.<\/p>\n

That title has been worn by a collection of sack artists of late. Currently, Houston Texans<\/a> defensive end Will Anderson Jr.<\/a> holds the throne as the NFL’s highest-paid non-QB. He landed a three-year extension reportedly worth $150 million earlier this offseason.<\/a><\/p>\n

As for Garrett, he’s coming off one of the most dominant defensive campaigns the league’s seen. During the 2025 season, Garrett’s ninth and final go-around with the Browns, the gargantuan backfield wrecker amassed 23 sacks. He rewrote the NFL’s single-season sack record<\/a>, which was set by Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Strahan in 2001 and then tied by Pittsburgh Steelers defensive stalwart T.J. Watt in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, Garrett clocked out with a whopping 33 tackles for loss last season. For reference, no other player in the league tallied more than 28 TFLs in 2025.<\/p>\n

Despite the exorbitant number of double teams and chip blocks that Garrett deals with, he consistently creates discomfort for opposing quarterbacks. Last season, the now-30-year-old Garrett ranked third among qualifying defensive linemen in pressure rate (16.3%), according to Next Gen Stats. He led that group, per NGS, with an average pass rush get-off \u2014 the time it takes for a pass rusher to cross the line of scrimmage \u2014 of 0.70 seconds.<\/p>\n

The Rams, at the moment clear Super Bowl favorites<\/a>, have ponied up this offseason to pay premium players at game-changing positions. Months before reworking Garrett’s contract so they could onboard the Hall of Fame-bound edge rusher, they locked Trent McDuffie into a four-year extension reportedly worth $124 million<\/a> that made him the NFL’s highest-paid cornerback to date. L.A. did so after trading for the two-time All-Pro corner, who previously won a pair of Super Bowls with the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With reigning NFL MVP Matthew Stafford on a new contract as well,<\/a> the Rams are putting all of their chips in amid their latest Super Bowl window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than a week after acquiring Myles Garrett in a seismic trade with the Cleveland Browns, the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[54,7,253,5328,6388,110,1014,58,2444,2611,32,1304,6,126,57,424,5226,582,4223,6051],"class_list":["post-910034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-football","tag-houston-texans","tag-ian-rapoport","tag-jeremy-fowler","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-myles-garrett","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-network","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-rams","tag-t-j-watt","tag-the-browns","tag-trent-mcduffie","tag-will-anderson-jr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116693631323694072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}