Garrett Traded to Rams, Donald Un-Retires to Team Up
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- Myles Garrett set the NFL single-season sack record with 23 sacks and won his second Defensive Player of the Year award before a blockbuster June trade from the Cleveland Browns to the Los Angeles Rams — making the defending champions Super Bowl favorites per DraftKings Sportsbook.
- Garrett enters his 10th NFL season with 125.5 career sacks (tied for 20th all-time), 10.5 more than any player since his 2017 rookie year (per ESPN Research), and the second-fastest ascent pace among the top five all time behind only Reggie White.
- Aaron Donald un-retired Sunday to join Garrett on the Rams' defensive line, bringing 111 career sacks — two behind Khalil Mack and Sean Jones — to a pass rush already headlined by the reigning sack-record holder.
- Von Miller, who recently signed with the Dallas Cowboys, is three sacks behind Michael Strahan (No. 6 all-time) entering his 15th season and could surpass him this year.
- Garrett has posted at least 14 sacks in each of the past five seasons — the longest such streak by any player since 1982 — and would set the two-season sack record since 1982 with 18.5 or more this season (per ESPN Research).
- Six other active players also occupy the all-time top 30 alongside Garrett: Von Miller (No. 9), Cameron Jordan (No. 17), Calais Campbell (No. 25), T.J. Watt (No. 26), Danielle Hunter (T-27), Khalil Mack (T-29).
Why it matters: Seven active players now sit in the NFL's all-time top 30 sack list — an unprecedented concentration — and two of them (Garrett and Donald) are now teammates on the Rams, who are Super Bowl favorites per DraftKings. The pairing stacks a reigning Defensive Player of the Year and record-setter onto a defense already loaded with a Hall of Fame-caliber interior rusher.
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