Myles Garrett sets Browns single-season sack record in style with strip sack, score against Ravens

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Browns defensive end Myles Garrett finally made history and he did it in style against the Ravens on Sunday afternoon at FirstEnergy Stadium.

Garrett strip-sacked Ravens backup quarterback Tyler Huntley, scooped up the loose ball and returned it 15 yards for a touchdown with 49 seconds left in the first half to set the Browns single-season sack record with 15 sacks.

Huntley was playing in place of Lamar Jackson, who was carted to the Ravens locker room with an ankle injury and was looking to throw on second-and-10 from his own 20-yard line when Garrett hit his arm, jarring the ball loose.

Garrett passed Reggie Camp’s single-season total of 14 in 1984. Sacks were not an official NFL stat until 1982.

He is also the first Browns player to return a fumble for a touchdown since Craig Robertson on December 7, 2014.

The team’s unofficial sack record is a bit murkier. The Browns media guide lists the late Bill Glass as the single-season leader with 14.5 in 1965, but it comes with the asterisk that stats weren’t an official stat at the time. Glass died on December 5.

Meanwhile, stats website Pro Football Reference updated sack totals this offseason and credits Glass with 16.5 in 1965 and Glass and Jack Gregory with 15.5 in 1962 and 1970 respectively.

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