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Myles Garrett ‘In Tier 1 By Himself’ Among EDGEs, ESPN Argues: ‘If You Don’t Double Team Him, He’s Going To F—ing Kill You’

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Myles Garrett is better than T.J. Watt, ESPN once again recently “confirmed”, with the Cleveland Browns star defender placing first on the outlet’s list of the NFL’s best edge rushers. Jeremy Fowler polled executives, coaches, and scouts to rank positions, and Garrett apparently emerged as the clear victor.

“Garrett is now in Tier 1 by himself, earning 70% of the first-place votes”, Fowler writes. Each voter selected its top 10 players at each position, so that means only 30% of respondents listed anybody other than Garrett as the top edge rusher on their ballot. Which is astonishing, given the existence of T.