Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett was cited for driving 100 mph early on Saturday morning in the Cleveland area, according to Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot.
Garrett was reportedly stopped for going 100 mph in a 60 mph zone in Strongsville, which sits just south of the team’s facilities in Berea, Ohio. He was hit with a $250 ticket, and he can pay it without going to court.
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Further specifics on the incident are not yet known. The Browns had landed back in the Cleveland area after their preseason game against the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte just before Garrett was pulled over, per the report, and he was “presumably on his way home.”
The Browns are aware of the incident, and will address it in Philadelphia later this week ahead of their preseason game against the Eagles on Saturday afternoon.
This is the eighth time that Garrett has been cited for speeding in Cleveland since the Browns first selected him with the No. 1 overall pick in 2017. Garrett also flipped his Porsche in 2022 while speeding before swerving to avoid an animal.
Garrett’s ticket on Saturday also came just a few months after Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders was hit with back-to-back speeding tickets in less than two weeks. The Browns selected Sanders in the fifth round of the NFL Draft earlier this spring out of Colorado, and he’s in the midst of a large battle for the starting job. The Browns addressed the tickets with Sanders internally, too.
Garrett racked up 47 total tackles and 14 sacks last season, his eighth with the Browns. It marked his seventh consecutive season with double-digit sacks, and he had a league-best 22 tackles for loss. After weeks of back-and-forth and a trade request, Garrett and the Browns agreed to a four-year contract extension in March that made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history at the time. The new deal pays Garrett more than $40 million a season and includes more than $123 million in guaranteed money.
The Browns, who went just 3-14 last season and missed the playoffs for the third time in the last four years, will open the 2025 campaign against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sept. 7.
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