The Los Angeles Rams are finalizing the biggest trade of the NFL offseason, acquiring Myles Garrett from the Cleveland Browns in exchange for pass rusher Jared Verse and a 2027 first round pick, according to multiple sources. The Rams are expected to send more in the deal, as well.
The Cleveland Browns are finalizing a trade that will send two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams for two-time Pro-Bowl pass rusher Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round draft pick and other
draft compensation that still is being negotiated, sources told NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero and ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
This changes the outlook of the Rams tremendously, acquiring a former number one overall pick who had an NFL record 23 sacks last season for the Browns, both for next season and the long-term future of the team. Garrett is on a Hall of Fame trajectory and now he’s playing for Sean McVay.
Rumors of the Rams’ interest in Garrett started on Sunday night and less than 24 hours later, he’s been traded to L.A..
Was Jared Verse too much to give up?
By only giving up one first round pick that we know about, trading Verse in the deal makes more sense. Verse, the 2024 Defensive Rookie of the Year, and a two-time Pro Bowler, had 7.5 sacks last season and is only 25. He also costs a lot less money than Garrett.
The Rams now owe a guaranteed $41 million to Garrett in 2027 alone. The team may adjust his contract in the near future despite him just signing a four-year, $161 million extension in 2025 to stay in Cleveland.
From the looks of it, that stay was not very long. Myles Garrett is about to be a member of the Los Angeles Rams and the defense has had an overhaul this offseason—between Garrett and Trent McDuffie—that historians might have to study for decades to come.
