Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett is an early candidate for defensive player of the year and on pace to shatter single-season sack records for the franchise. In his first seven games of the 2021 season, he has registered 9.5 sacks, with his most stellar outing being a 4.5-sack effort in Week 3 against the Chicago Bears.
NFL records indicate that Reggie Camp holds the single-season franchise record with 14 sacks in 1984; although unofficial records from the early years indicate that Bill Glass had 16.5 sacks in 1960. Here’s to hoping that an injury, COVID-19, or an unforeseen lapse in judgment doesn’t get in the way of disrupting Garrett’s path for history (he still has plenty of quarterback gravestones to make true, after all).