Defensive End · Los Angeles Rams

Myles Garrett

No. 95 · 10th season

Seventeen days in, Garrett is already at home in Los Angeles

Being traded is a lot of things at once. It is a door closing, a number changing on a jersey, and a room full of people who don't know you yet. For Myles Garrett, that room belongs to the Los Angeles Rams now.

Garrett built his name as one of the most disruptive defensive players in football — the kind of presence an entire offense has to plan around before the ball is even snapped. When a player like that moves teams, the question is never just about scheme. It's about whether he feels like himself in a new place.

Seventeen days after the trade, Garrett says he does. Head coach Sean McVay has already given him something that matters more than a playbook: the sense that he is trusted and believed in.

That matters because fit isn't automatic. A new locker room has its own rhythms, its own unspoken rules, its own sense of who belongs. The fact that Garrett is talking about confidence this early — not adjustment, not patience, not process — suggests the landing has been softer than most. McVay has a reputation for making players feel seen. Garrett, it seems, is no exception.

The Rams brought him here to change games. Whether he feels like himself on this new sideline will shape everything that follows.

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