{"id":36074,"date":"2025-03-14T21:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/myles-garrett-says-40m-a-year-deal-with-browns-about-winning-rather-than-money\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:05:31","slug":"myles-garrett-says-40m-a-year-deal-with-browns-about-winning-rather-than-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/myles-garrett-says-40m-a-year-deal-with-browns-about-winning-rather-than-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Garrett says $40m-a-year deal with Browns about winning rather than money"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pass rusher signed record deal to stay in Cleveland<\/li>\n<li>Team have underperformed during Garrett\u2019s tenure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Myles Garrett has sacked 31 different quarterbacks during his eight-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/nfl\">NFL<\/a> career. On Friday, the four-time All-Pro edge rusher had to stand in his own pocket and take the pressure of fielding questions about his decision to sign an extension with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/cleveland-browns\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> instead of trying to follow through on his trade request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I had some frustration. And you know, I feel like that helped us grow and have conversations that were difficult, but needed to be had,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cI think the fans will see that my heart is in the right place. It has never been about money. It\u2019s always been about winning. That\u2019s where my frustration lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Garrett\u2019s four-year contract extension <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/09\/myles-garrett-contract-cleveland-browns-nfl\">has an average salary of $40m<\/a> and makes him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p> The deal ended a month-long saga that began during Super Bowl week when the 2023 AP Defensive Player of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/03\/defensive-player-of-year-myles-garrett-requests-trade-from-troubled-browns\">asked for a trade<\/a>, saying he wanted to win a Super Bowl. The Browns were firm, however, that they would not entertain offers from other teams.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/14\/myles-garrett-says-40m-a-year-deal-with-browns-about-winning-rather-than-money\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass rusher signed record deal to stay in Cleveland Team have underperformed during Garrett\u2019s tenure Myles Garrett has sacked 31 different quarterbacks during his eight-year NFL career. On Friday, the four-time All-Pro edge rusher had to stand in his own pocket and take the pressure of fielding questions about his decision to sign an extension &#8230; <a title=\"Myles Garrett says $40m-a-year deal with Browns about winning rather than money\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/myles-garrett-says-40m-a-year-deal-with-browns-about-winning-rather-than-money\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Myles Garrett says $40m-a-year deal with Browns about winning rather than money\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}