Myles Garrett Led the NFL in Sacks in 2025. Cleveland Traded Him Anyway.

Here's a fun one for you. The best pass rusher in football just spent an entire season proving it, then his own team traded him anyway. Football is a beautiful, stupid sport sometimes.

Myles Garrett led the entire NFL in sacks in 2025. Not top-5. Not top-3. Led it — outright, by a real margin, wearing a Cleveland Browns uniform every single Sunday. Then, this June, Cleveland shipped him to the Los Angeles Rams as part of a swap that sent Jared Verse back the other way. The reigning sack king got a new zip code before he even got to enjoy the trophy.

The Season That Got Him Traded Anyway

Second place on the sack leaderboard was 16.5. Garrett beat the entire rest of the league by 6.5 sacks — that's a real, decisive gap, not a rounding-error "led by half a sack" situation. He was the best defensive player in football in 2025, and it wasn't particularly close.

Then Cleveland Traded Him Anyway

On June 1, the Browns sent Garrett to the Rams, reportedly as a pass-rusher swap that brought Jared Verse back to Cleveland in return. Think about the timeline here: the man just finished a season where he was statistically the most disruptive defender in the sport, and instead of building around him, his own franchise decided a change made more sense.

Led the league in sacks. Got traded anyway. Football doesn't owe anybody loyalty.

There's no scandal here, no injury red flag, no decline in the numbers — the 2025 season line is genuinely elite production. Sometimes a front office just decides it's time for a new direction, and the guy who was the best at his job all year is the one who ends up on a plane.

What the Rams Just Got

Whatever Los Angeles gave up to get him, they now have the reigning outright NFL sacks leader walking into their defensive front for 2026. A 33-tackle-for-loss, 39-QB-hit season doesn't happen by accident, and there's no obvious reason on the stat sheet to expect a cliff. If you're building a defense-driven bet or DFS lineup around the Rams next season, this is the kind of real, verifiable production you're inheriting — not projection, not hope, an actual league-leading season that just switched addresses.

Sack and tackle totals verified from official 2025 regular-season game logs. Trade details from the league's official transactions wire. check Myles Garrett's full stat line on AiOdds.io. Gamble responsibly, 21+ only.