Every NFL team would like a player the caliber of Myles Garrett.
He’s a generational talent who can wreak havoc on opposing offenses and make a good defense a great one.
With Garrett on Monday going public with his request to be traded from the Cleveland Browns after eight seasons, fanbases are now dreaming of the possibility that the former Defensive Player of the Year will suit up for their team.
That includes supporters of the Green Bay Packers. Former Packers offensive lineman Mark Tauscher, who won a Super Bowl in Green Bay and is in the team’s Hall of Fame, is one of them.
“The Packers have an opportunity to make the big splash and I think they should go and do it,” Tauscher said Monday on his radio show, “Wilde and Tausch.”
The Packers had a top-five defense and top-10 scoring defense last year and their 45 sacks were also in the top 10, but 15 of those came in two games against undermanned offensive lines. What Green Bay needs, however, to take their defense to the next level and be more consistent against the best teams is someone like Garrett, Tauscher believes.
“Myles Garrett is him,’ Tauscher said.
Tauscher said Garrett is the type of player who offensive coordinators always need to account for when game-planning during the week. Tauscher said, right now, the Packers don’t have a player on the defensive line of that stature on their roster.
That would change if Green Bay acquired Garrett, Tauscher added.
And combine Garrett’s abilities at the line with Edgerrin Cooper at linebacker and Xavier McKinney in the secondary and Green Bay suddenly has playmakers all over the field.
Likely easier said than done. But it’s that point in the Packers offseason when anything seems possible to those on the outside.
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Tauscher would hope the Packers wouldn’t have to give up “a ton” for Garrett. But you don’t get Garrett without giving up a haul, including some high draft capital.
Would the Packers part with coveted draft picks for Garrett?
Myles Garrett stats
Garrett has already played eight NFL seasons but he’s still 29 years old and has only missed two games in the last four seasons.
His credentials are Hall of Fame-worthy. Since being selected No. 1 by the Browns in the 2017 NFL draft, his 102.5 sacks are only second to T.J. Watt. Garrett and Watt came into the league the same year.
Garrett has six All-Pro honors with four first teams. He’s had double-digit sack totals in the each of the last seven seasons and posted career highs with 16 in 2021 and 2022.
During his defensive player of the year season, Garrett had 14 sacks and four forced fumbles.
Myles Garrett statement
Garrett said his goal isn’t to go from Cleveland to Canton, the site of the Hall of Fame.
Rather, “it has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl.”
Are the Packers just one piece away from that?
Tauscher isn’t the only one clamoring for Garrett to be a Packer. Fans on social media were all for it, just as they’re for about any potential impact player this offseason after the Packers’ wild-card playoff loss to the Philadelphia Eagles last month.
