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Michael Strahan reacts to Myles Garrett threatening his, TJ Watt's single-season sack record

Meby: Nick Geddes5 hours agoNickGeddesNews

Myles Garrett is inching closer to NFL history. The Cleveland Browns pass rusher, with 18.0 sacks in 11 games, is five sacks away from breaking the single-season sack record.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Strahan and Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker TJ Watt currently share the record with 22.5 sacks. Strahan set the record in 2001, and he stood alone until 2021 when Watt tied him.

Garrett is on a blistering pace in 2025. He still has six games to break the record and at this point, he might make it unattainable for anyone to reach. Strahan is hoping Garrett does just that.

“There’s nobody like Myles Garrett. I am truly hoping he breaks the sack record,” Strahan said on FOX NFL Sunday. “I was thinking about this, Lawrence Taylor is the best defensive player I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. But I think this kid is close, in my opinion. I think he’s better than Reggie White, I think he’s better than my guy Bruce Smith, myself — this guy is something else.

“He needs five sacks to break this record; I think he’s gonna crush the record. He has 13 sacks in four games; I don’t see him slowing down anytime soon.”

NFL single-season sack record could soon belong to Myles Garrett

At 29, Garrett is already a first ballot Hall of Famer. He could stop playing tomorrow and that wouldn’t change. But he’s in his prime and better than ever. The single-season sack record is near; it’s not a matter of if but when and how many he will finish with.

“I don’t even think about it as a want — I just think about something that I’m going to knock down,” Garrett said Friday. “It’s already been written in my mind that it’s going just how far I’m going to take it. So, just going to go out there and do what I do, and whatever number I end up at.”