BEREA, Ohio — Regardless of enduring one other season of double-digit losses, Browns defensive finish Myles Garrett needs to proceed his profession in Cleveland.
However the NFL’s reigning Defensive Participant of the 12 months needs to know definitively that the Browns have a plan to put him on a profitable crew quickly.
Garrett stated Friday that he has no need for a rebuild and needs to talk to the group’s decision-makers about its offseason plans, together with at quarterback.
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“I am not making an attempt to rebuild,” he stated. “I am making an attempt to win proper now. And I would like that to be obvious when the season is over and we’ve got these discussions. I would like them to have the ability to illuminate, illustrate that for me so that may be one thing I can see within the close to future. As a result of that is all we wish to do.
“I wish to keep loyal to a crew that confirmed loyalty to me and religion in me by drafting me. However we’ve got to do, on the finish of the day, what’s finest for us. So, if we’ve got that alignment the place that is one thing that’s nonetheless attainable within the close to future — profitable, going deep within the playoffs, placing an ideal protection on the market … I feel that will actually hold my thoughts at relaxation and hold me settled.”
Garrett, 28, has two years remaining on the five-year extension he signed in 2020. A brand new deal within the offseason may present the Browns much-needed cap aid. Garrett has performed in simply three playoff video games since Cleveland chosen him with the highest choose within the 2017 draft.
Final week, Garrett expressed assist for head coach Kevin Stefanski and normal supervisor Andrew Berry, who’ve led the group for the reason that 2020 season.
However on Friday, Garrett was extra vocal in his need to see the crew’s plans.
When requested if these plans included the quarterback place, Garrett stated, “Completely. Whether or not [quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson] is the answer or another person is, it is obtained to be drawn out. There’s obtained to be a plan of motion.”
On Sunday, the Browns will begin Thompson-Robinson, a 2023 fifth-round choose, for the not too long ago benched Jameis Winston. Thompson-Robinson would be the third quarterback too begin for the Browns this season and the fortieth for the reason that franchise moved again to Cleveland in 1999.
Deshaun Watson, for whom the group traded three first-round picks and gave a totally assured $230 million contract earlier than the 2022 season, sustained a season-ending proper Achilles tendon tear in Week 7. He has posted the bottom QBR amongst qualifying passers since making his debut in Cleveland.
“I wish to be a Cleveland Brown. I wish to play right here. I wish to finish my profession right here,” Garrett stated. “But when we select to do a rebuild and it is two, three, 4 years out, I would like to have the ability to compete and play at a excessive stage, play significant video games and be enjoying previous January.”
