One sack away from breaking the single-season record, Browns defensive end Myles Garrett says it would be "special" to achieve such history against Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Sunday.
"He's legendary himself, and it's a legendary record I'm here chasing," Garrett told reporters Friday. "That'd be a great one to put a picture on the wall with."
Garrett enters Week 17 with 22.0 sacks on the season, one shy of breaking the 22.5-sack mark set by Hall of Famer Michael Strahan in 2001 and Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt in 2021. Sacks were first recorded in 1982 as official NFL statistics.
Sacking Rodgers is an act that's eluded Garrett in the two games they've shared the field, including a Week 6 loss in Pittsburgh -- one of just three games this season Cleveland's star defender hasn't added to his season sack total.
The Steelers have allowed a 23.1 pressure percentage in 2025, the lowest in the NFL, per Next Gen Stats.
Garrett has fared well against the Steelers at home, however, notching 5.0 total sacks in each of the last two games in Cleveland. He enters Sunday with nine straight games of at least 0.5 sacks, the longest active streak in the league, per NFL Research.
"Myles Garrett has certainly been an issue for us in that venue," Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said this week. "I think he's had five sacks against us in our last two trips, neither of which we won. And so we understand the gravity of what we're going into and how they engineer victory and who's significant in doing so. He's at the doorstep of history, and so we certainly have respect for that."
A win on Sunday -- or a loss from the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday -- clinches the AFC North title for Pittsburgh. Garrett will hope to overshadow that by breaking one the league's most heralded defensive records.
