As of right now, it seems like the Cleveland Browns will take Myles Garrett with the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. Garrett is a freak of nature at defensive end who went to Texas A&M and spent his college career terrorizing opposing offenses.
Garrett is also a native of Arlington, Texas, so you can probably guess that he’s a huge Dallas Cowboys fan. He’s such a big Cowboys fan that he thought it would be a good idea to publicly ask for Jerry Jones to trade up to No. 1 so he can spend the start of his career in his hometown.
On Saturday, Garrett told reporters that he was going to apologize to the Browns when he has his sit down meeting with the organization at the NFL Combine.
Myles Garrett on his plan to apologize to #Browns when he meets with them today for video in which he asked #Cowboys to trade for him pic.twitter.com/lLVgix92zL
— Nate Ulrich (@ByNateUlrich) March 4, 2017
“Everybody has their down years and any time it can be turned around,” Garrett said when he was asked about the Browns and their reputation for being the league’s laughing stock. He used Dallas as proof that this can happen, saying that they “turned around their season in a big way.”
A rookie wanting to play in their hometown isn’t controversial, but Garrett raised a bunch of eyebrows when he publicly begged for a trade to happen, saying “I’m speaking to you, Jerry. Mr. Garrett, make it happen. Dak Prescott leads our team right now. I need you to take Tony Romo, take a couple picks, and give them to Cleveland so you can pick me up. Please, I’d love to play in Dallas, just make it happen.”
Good on him for trying to make things right when he meets the team. He’s still almost certainly the favorite to go No. 1 overall, but Garrett may need to do some work to convince the team that he’d be happy in Cleveland.
