CLEVELAND, Ohio (92.3 The Fan) – From Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski’s viewpoint, Myles Garrett is done putting rec leaguers on posters.
Garrett’s basketball career is over.
“He retired,” Stefanski said Wednesday. “So, congratulations on a great career for Myles, really proud of him, but he’s done.”
The Browns signed Garrett to a five-year, $125 million contract extension last summer and it stands to reason that with Super Bowl aspirations for the first time in 30 years, the franchise would like their star defender to avoid any unnecessary risks away from the field.
“He’s retiring,” Stefanski said when asked if the ‘retirement’ came at his request.
While it would stand to reason that Stefanski suggested to Garrett that he put away the sneakers, Cleveland’s All-Pro and Pro Bowl defensive end did not sound like a player who has called it quits forever.
“I feel like it’s more of a Jordan retirement,” Garrett said. “I went to baseball for a second, slash basketball for a second and now I gotta go back to what I’m good at and what I usually do: play football, rush the passer, stop the run.
“Next season, you never know. I might go back to basketball. I might go play baseball and see if I can get on a team. There’s more on the horizon but right now I gotta get back to what my main focus is.”
In February Garrett posted a video of him playing a pickup game and he asked Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban if he needed a “big guard.”
Late last month he posted another video that went viral of him running the floor and dunking on a rec league player.
“You see, when I looked at him when he was on the ground that was going through my head, ‘What were you thinking? I knew you didn’t think you were gonna go up there and get that,’” Garrett said. “He must have wanted to be in the highlight or he saw the video and wanted to be part of it somehow but it was…he made the video.”
Garrett was on the field Tuesday and Wednesday participating in the Browns' offseason training activities or OTAs.
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