The Chicago Bears are gearing up for a Week 15 matchup against the Cleveland Browns, which will be anything but a cake walk despite Cleveland’s 3-10 record. And that has everything to do with one player: Star pass rusher Myles Garrett, who’s on the cusp of NFL history.
Garrett has been one of the league’s top edge rushers since being drafted first overall by the Browns in 2017, where he’s totaled at least 10 sacks in eight of nine seasons in the NFL. This year, Garrett has a league-best 20 sacks through 13 games, and he’s just three shy of eclipsing Michael Strahan’s single-season sack record (22.5).
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Quarterback Caleb Williams has developed a reputation as Houdini in the pocket, as he’s been able to evade defenders, including most recently Micah Parsons, who was held without a sack last week. But Garrett is a whole other monster, and Williams is determined not to let Garrett set the single-season sack record against him.
“I’m going to try and make sure that he doesn’t get the sack record on us and on me,” Williams said. “But, I think those games have prepared the offensive line, us as a game plan, and going against those type of players where they’re just the S-tier players where you just have to make sure every single snap, every single play, everything is not allowing them to wreck the game. That’s something that he can do. That’s something that he’s done throughout his whole career. And so, we’re excited for the challenge.”
It won’t be an easy task, especially with rookie left tackle Ozzy Trapilo expected to line up against Garrett most of the time. While head coach Ben Johnson has a plan for how to address Garrett, Williams understands just how easily he can wreck a game.
“He has, as the kids say, a deep bag of tricks,” Williams said. “Whether it’s his euro step, his speed, his off the ball, they’ll put him at the linebacker area and let him just kind of do his thing. So, he has a deep bag of tricks and it’s going to be a good challenge for us as an offense, us as an offensive line. Running backs, everybody accounts for him, and everybody else in that field. He has a deep bag of tricks and when somebody is well polished as he is throughout the NFL, and throughout his years in NFL, that’s what makes him Myles Garrett.”
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