Myles Garrett with the Cleveland Browns, 2021
With the Cleveland Browns, 2021. Photo: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive line, Texas A&M, 2014–⁠16

Myles Garrett

Number
No. 15
Height
6′5″
Hometown
Arlington, TX
Born
Dec 29, 1995, in Arlington, Texas

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Myles Garrett played defensive line at Texas A&M (2014–⁠16). He was a consensus All‑American in 2016. The Cleveland Browns took Garrett first overall in the 2017 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2016
Consensus All-American and First-team All-SEC
Best game
8 tackles
Vs. UTSA, week 12, 2016: No. 1 defensive game in FBS that week
Drafted
No. 1
Overall, 2017 NFL Draft (Cleveland Browns)

Career highs

8tackles, career highvs. UTSA, 20164.5sacks, career highvs. UTSA, 2016

Honors

All-America: consensus 2016; Walter Camp first team 2015; FWAA 2015; AP third team 2015

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonTacklesInterceptionsFumbles
TotSoloAstTFLSacksIntYdsTDPDFFFR
20145329241411.5000100
201559372219.512.5140250
2016331815158.5000121
Career145846148.532.5140471

From the college statistics table in Garrett’s Wikipedia article (Myles Garrett, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2014Texas A&M15DL
2015Texas A&M15DL
2016Texas A&M15DL6′5″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2016 Texas A&M 10 games, 33 tackles, 8.5 sacks
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 3vs.UCLAW 31–⁠24311.5100
Sep 10vs.Prairie View A&MW 67–⁠0210001
Sep 17atAuburnW 29–⁠16322.5200
Sep 24vs.ArkansasW 45–⁠24321000
Oct 8vs.TennesseeW 45–⁠38321100
Oct 22atAlabamaL 14–⁠33733.5000
Nov 12vs.Ole MissL 28–⁠29100000
Nov 19vs.UTSAW 23–⁠10874.54.501
Nov 24vs.LSUL 39–⁠54201000
Dec 28 ✦vs.Kansas StateL 28–⁠33100000
2015 Texas A&M 2 games, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Oct 17vs.AlabamaL 23–⁠41––––––
Oct 24atOle MissL 3–⁠23––––1–

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2017Combine or pro day 2017
Height6′4½″
Weight272 lb
Arm length35¼″
Hand size10¼″
Wingspan82⅝″W
40-yard dash4.64 s
10-yard split1.63 s
Vertical jump41″
Broad jump10′8″
Bench press33 reps
20-yard shuttle4.20 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

9 seasons, 131 games with a stat; latest team: Los Angeles Rams.

Pro Bowls: 7 (2018, 2020–⁠25) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 5 (2020–⁠21, 2023–⁠25) · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2 (2018, 2022)

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2020–⁠21, 2023–⁠25; AP second team 2018, 2022; Pro Football Writers first team 2020–⁠25; Sporting News first team 2020–⁠25.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2017Cleveland Browns113170
2018Cleveland Browns164113.50
2019Cleveland Browns1028100
2020Cleveland Browns1445120
2021Cleveland Browns1749160
2022Cleveland Browns1652160
2023Cleveland Browns1535140
2024Cleveland Browns1541140
2025Cleveland Browns1757230
NFL career131379125.50

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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