LOS ANGELES –In a blockbuster trade on Monday, June 1, All-Pro pass rusher Myles Garrett has been traded from the Cleveland Browns the best defensive presence in the NFL to the Los Angeles Rams. It is a fantastic move by an organization who is improving their one weakness, which is preventing them from winning a Super Bowl.
This massive deal involved multiple high-value assets and is being hailed as a landscape move across the NFL world.
The Rams had to give up young pass rusher Jared Verse and three draft picks for the generational talent, that is Myles Garrett.
Last season, recording an NFL record 23 sacks, Garrett is joining a Los Angeles team that is clearly all in on pursuing a Super Bowl in 2026. Verse will head east to Cleveland, where he’ll replace Garrett on a team that is quietly assembling a promising young core, for which Verse should serve as a pillar going forward.
Toward the end of the season, especially in the NFC championship game against the Seattle Seahawks, it was apparent the Rams defense- not only the maligned secondary was responsible for the 31-27 gut wrenching loss to the eventual Super Bowl champs, the Seattle Seahawks.
Which I assure you, doesnt haunt me once or twice a day!
Garrett’s arrival supplies Chris Shula — a defensive coordinator whose successes nearly landed him a head coaching job in 2026 — with a game-wrecking force uniquely skilled enough to create mismatches anywhere along the defensive front.
Instead of watching his pass rush register pressures but fail to get home, Shula can now deploy Garrett wherever he prefers and create advantages elsewhere. If he gets Garrett in a one-on-one matchup, he can smile as he watches Garrett destroy a tackle before swallowing up an opposing quarterback. Garrett joins Los Angeles fresh off a NFL record 23 sacks and has recorded at least 10 sacks in each of the past eight campaigns (he had seven in his 2017 rookie season).
With a core of young defensive talent including Byron Young, Kobie Turner and Braden Fiske.
Everyone in L.A. is thrilled by the news, including recently ‘retired’ Ram Aaron Donald.
I use the term, ‘retired’ loosely because former Rams teammate, Michael Brockers, said that the NFL great might be considering coming out of retirement.
“(I have) some knowledge that others might not have … My guy is staying ready so he doesn’t have to get ready,” Brockers said during a recent interview.
Donald retired after the 2023 season, concluding one of the most dominant runs a defensive tackle has ever had in the sport.
Donald, 35, made the Pro Bowl in all 10 of his seasons, was named Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2014 and was named the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year three times. In 154 career games, he recorded 543 tackles with 111 sacks and 24 forced fumbles.
Nothing is quite as rejuvenating as an ocean breeze, sunshine and a legitimate chance to win a ring.
