Countdown to 2020: Best Cleveland Browns player to wear No. 95

The Cleveland Browns have a rich and illustrious history. With only 95 days until the Browns season opener, we look at the best Browns player to ever wear number 95.

The countdown to the 2020 NFL season is upon us. With 95 days remaining until the Browns season opener, we continue the countdown by celebrating the best Cleveland Browns player to ever wear number 95 — Myles Garrett

Myles Garrett was drafted by the Cleveland Browns with the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft out of Texas A&M. Garrett was considered a special generational type talent before he ever took his first snap on an NFL playing field. Also, for the record, his first snap would end up being a sack.

Garrett’s frame and physicality made him the consensus number one player coming out of college. At 6-foot-four and 272lbs, his explosivity and raw power were simply too much to ignore. He recorded a 4.64 40-yard dash, 128-inch broad jump, 41-inch vertical leap, and then put up 33 reps of 225lbs on the bench press at the NFL Combine. Athletes of Garrett’s prowess only come around but so often.

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Garrett is entering his fourth NFL season and he is already the best Browns player to ever wear the number 95. There have been a few talented players who have wore the number while they were in Cleveland, but none have put up the numbers or had the impact that Garrett has had in his young burgeoning career.

As a rookie Garrett played in 11 games and finished the season with a team-high seven sacks. He was also named to the 2017 Pro Football Writers of America All-rookie team.

In his sophomore campaign, Garrett began to do what Cleveland drafted him to do…wreck games. Garrett started in all 16 games and finished with a team-high 13.5 sacks, half of a sack shy of the team record. In addition to his sack total, he had a staggering 29 hits on quarterbacks in 2018. Garrett received pro bowl recognition and made second-team All-Pro for his efforts.

His third season as a professional was one of success and turmoil. Because of his success in 2018, offensive coordinators were forced to game plan for Garrett. Even with the added attention, the uber-talented third-year player was enjoying his best season in the NFL. That all came crashing down at the tail-end of the 10th game of the season.

In the final seconds of a Cleveland victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Garrett lost his cool and retaliated after being accosted by Steeler’s quarterback Mason Rudolph. What was said by Rudolph to Garrett will probably never be known, but what transpired after Rudolph struck Garrett in the nether regions and attempted to rip off the defensive end’s helmet will live in football infamy. Rather than going over those grim details, let’s just say Garrett received a season-ending suspension for his role in the melee that occurred.

Let’s return the focus to Garrett’s pedigree and production. Garrett has only played in 37 games in his NFL career but already has 30.5 sacks. That number puts him at seventh all-time in Cleveland Browns’ history. Barring injury or some unforeseeable circumstance, Garrett should find himself at third on that list come to the end of the 2020 season. Every player in front of him on that list played in a minimum of 70 games for the Browns.

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Although his career is just getting started, it’s not crazy to think, at his current trajectory, Garrett’s story as an NFL player might end in Canton, Ohio. We can only hope that the Cleveland Browns see to it that Garrett ends his career right where it began, wearing Orange and Brown.

Honorable mention: Jamir Miller

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