Myles Garrett desires to take down Aaron Rodgers for NFL sack file
The Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre parallels may take one other uncommon twist if Myles Garrett has his method.
The Browns’ defensive finish Myles Garrett is on the cusp of tying or breaking the single-season sack file — that’s held collectively by Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer Michael Strahan and Steelers star T.J. Watt — heading into Cleveland’s Week 17 recreation towards Pittsburgh.
Meaning the 29-year-old Garrett may make some NFL historical past with a sack on Rodgers, in the same method to how Strahan broke the file again on Jan. 6, 2002, when the Giants confronted the Favre-led Packers.
Garrett instructed reporters on Friday that doing it towards Rodgers could be “particular.”
”[Rodgers is] legendary himself, and it’s a legendary file I’m right here chasing,” Garrett mentioned, per ESPN. “That’d be an excellent one to place an image on the wall with.”
The defensive finish is sitting at 22 sacks, which suggests he would tie the file with half a sack, and a full sack would make him the brand new standard-bearer within the NFL.
If Garrett managed to take action in both method this weekend, it will be the primary time that he has ever sacked Rodgers after dealing with him twice throughout his profession.
The Browns and Steelers performed earlier this season in Week 6 when Pittsburgh got here out with a 23-9 win.
Rodgers and Favre have continued to be linked, as each had profitable runs with the Packers, solely to be traded to the Jets and have underwhelming stints.
If Garrett have been to tie or break the file, it will solely add one other marker to the similarities of their profession.
“Myles Garrett has actually been a difficulty for us in that venue,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin instructed reporters in regards to the upcoming matchup. “I feel he’s had 5 sacks towards us in our final two journeys, neither of which we gained. And so we perceive the gravity of what we’re going into and the way they engineer victory and who’s important in doing so. He’s on the doorstep of historical past, and so we actually have respect for that.”
Watt won’t be lining up towards the Browns in a recreation that might embrace some NFL historical past, as he has been recovering from a collapsed lung he suffered earlier this month.
He returned to follow this week however was dominated out for the 1 p.m. recreation in Cleveland on Sunday.
