Browns Remain Unwilling to Entertain Myles Garrett Trade Request
Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry reveals the team is still unwilling to entertain defensive end Myles Garrett's trade request.
Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett requested a trade at the beginning of February. The team quickly responded that it was not interested in entertaining the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year’s request, and that seems to remain the case.
On Tuesday, Browns general manager Andrew Berry revealed the team has not changed its mind on the matter.
“Our stance really has not changed,” Berry said via Adam Schefter of ESPN. “We’re not interested in moving him.”
Only time will tell how Garrett will respond to the Browns unwillingness to part ways with him, but the situation has the chance to get ugly fast if he stands his ground.
Cleveland is coming off yet another disappointing season in which the team finished 3-14. Garrett, on the other hand, just had his seventh straight season of his NFL career with double-digit sacks and fourth straight with 14 or more.
Garrett signed a five-year, $125 million extension in 2020, which leaves two years left on the deal. His contract carries salary-cap hits of $19.7 million and $20.4 million in 2025 and 2026. However, Garrett revealed his trade request is not about money.
“My desire to win and compete on the biggest stages won’t allow me to be complacent,” Garrett wrote. “The goal was never to go from Cleveland to Canton, it has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl.”
Berry doesn’t seem willing to rule out another possible extension for Garrett, though.
“Whenever you get into extension talks, they can happen at any time. I’ve learned not to predict those because, often times, those negotiations, they can go up and down and back and forth,” Berry said via Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal. “So I can’t begin to predict.”
That feels far from likely at this point, but one side is going to have to give in. It doesn’t look like that will be the Browns anytime soon.