Myles Garrett’s moment may finally arrive on Sunday. The Cleveland Browns star needs 1 sack to establish a new single-season sack record if he can corral Aaron Rodgers just once in Week 17.

“It would be special, Garrett said of potentially sacking Rodgers to set the record. :He’s legendary himself and it’s a legendary record I’m out here chasing, so that’d be a great one to put a picture on the wall with.”

It’ll be easier said than done against the 42-year-old QB, known for his quick trigger in the pocket. In the first meeting between the two division rivals, Garrett failed to register a sack.

Garrett is known for putting a “QB graveyard” display in his yard around Halloween. It’s essentially a collection of all the signal callers Garrett has sacked over the years. Rodgers having his name plastered on a tombstone to this point. He’ll try to avoid it again on Sunday, in what very well may be Garrett’s last chance to sack him, ever.

“If he rolls out, at least he might end up holding it,” Garrett said of Rodgers’ shiftiness. “But there might be a max-protect look and he’s feeling a little bit more comfortable and he can settle in there. So just try to keep him off balance with different looks that we have prepared and hopefully he opens it up.”

Another fun subplot to Garrett’s record-breaking chase is the fact that finishing it off against the Steelers would come right in the face of his career counterpart T.J. Watt, who just so happens to hold a share of the current record of 22.5 sacks, along with Michael Strahan. Watt is out for the game as he continues recovering from a partially collapsed lung. He did travel with the team, though, meaning he’ll be on the sideline to watch Garrett potentially break his record.

The two future Hall of Famers have constantly been compared to each other throughout their careers, partially because they play on rival teams. The personal competition between them runs a little deeper though.

After Garrett got a new contract this offseason, Watt made sure to get $1 million more in AAV than the Browns star when his payday followed. Garrett downplayed their “rivalry.”

“I think the only rivalry is between the fan bases debating on whether who is better, he said. “I think the guys around here have that more in their minds about the rivalry, whether it’s him and I or Browns and Steelers, taking [the record] fom them, than I do. I just want to go get it to say that I got it, because I feel like that’s what I’m capable of.”

While Garrett and Watt keep their interactions to a minimum, the 2023 Defensive Player of the Year has heard from numerous NFL legends who are following his run to breaking the record. The NFL’s career leader in sacks, Bruce Smith has reached out. So has John Randle.

He’s bound to hear from plenty of the game’s biggest legends if he gets to sack No. 23 this weekend. It would also be the 125.5 sack of his career, to bring him within 75 of Smith’s record.

“Getting Brady in OT, that’s a big one, Garrett said of the sack he remembers most so far. That one came back in 2019.

The next one is bound to be more memorable than that.

“Honestly, I’m more focused on the next one than even the last … I don’t know. I guess, when Josh fell with me and me and Alex got a sack, that was my last sack. But other than that, I can’t remember the sack before that. I just continue to chase.”

That chase is nearly complete. At least as far as the single-season record is concerned. After that, though, there is a bigger chase to complete. Garrett does have Smith’s 200 career-sack mark on his mind.

“If I want to play that long,” Garrett said with a laugh. “I think at the pace I am now, I can get it in like five years. I think five years is right at that time to think I’ll go and hang the cleats up. So I do think about if I can do it. And I think I’m only getting better, I think the numbers will only continue to look similar to how they are right now. So I’ll be knocking on his door pretty soon. I used to have the little graveyard that he did a couple years back, he had all these graves and everyone to show me up, but it’s OK, I’m going to catch him.”