Cleveland Browns: Myles Garrett was limited by Gregg Williams

Myles Garrett looks forward to working with new defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, who he hopes will give him more freedom than Gregg Williams did during his tenure

In his first 27 games as a pro, Myles Garrett has recorded an impressive 20.5 sacks. The former No. 1 overall pick out of Texas A&M has done plenty of damage attacking opposing quarterbacks and has made the Cleveland Browns happy they invested their top pick on his services.

While his start to his career has been great, there’s real hope that he can be even better in 2019. Not only does he have another season worth of experience under his belt, but Garrett also has a better supporting cast this season with Sheldon Richardson and Olivier Vernon joining him and Larry Ogunjobi on the team’s suddenly stacked defensive line.

On top of the help he’ll have lined up alongside him, Garrett also feels as though he will have more freedom going forward to wreak havoc. Dan Pompei of Bleacher Report released an article where he got to know Garrett better and the third-year pro expressed interest in working with new defensive coordinator Steve Wilks.

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Garrett said that he should have more freedom when trying to get past his blockers as he was limited to just two moves by former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.

"“I hopefully have more freedom to be the player I want to be,” Garrett says via Pompei. “[Former defensive coordinator and interim head coach] Gregg [Williams] was more like: ‘You win with these two moves. I don’t want to see anything else out of you.’ It’s kind of hard with two moves. I feel like you can’t always be so predictable. You can be as strong or fast as you want, but speed chop and power move aren’t always going to work. You have to mix up what you’re doing. Sometimes you have to stutter step, sometimes you have to spin inside, you have to run some games. You have to have some freedom to throw different looks at them, and we didn’t always have that.”"

Garrett did enough with those two moves to make his first Pro Bowl in 2018, but he had his sights set on more. He openly expressed his desire during the season to be in the NFL Defensive Player of the Year discussion.

When talking about that goal, he said that leading the league in sacks would be the most likely way he could win that award. Hopefully, he and Wilks can work together well enough to have him atop the leaders in 2019.