Myles Garrett has collected just about everything a pass rusher can chase, except the one ring that still sits outside his résumé. He’s a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, one of the NFL’s premier edge defenders, and now he belongs to the Rams. So when Cameron Jordan started talking on the “Games With Names” podcast, Rams fans probably didn’t need long to figure out where this was headed.
Jordan, who joined former Patriots receiver Julian Edelman on the show, kicked things off by arguing that sacks get too much credit. From there, he went further with a pointed take:
"I think a sack is an overrated stat ... winning the game is the most important. ... We look at it like, 'Oh, he's the best because he had 19 or 20 or 22 sacks,' but he's not worth a damn in the run.
But we don't talk about it. 'He's the DPOY!'
But he's a liability on the outside zone stretch plays. 'He's the best!'
But he swims B gaps and C gaps."
The problem for Jordan is that the numbers don’t really back up that shot if Garrett was the target. Garrett’s pass-rush work was on a different level last year, with Pro Football Focus giving him a 93.3 grade, best among all edge rushers. Jordan, by contrast, came in at 59.5.
And if the point was supposed to be that Garrett gives something back in the run game, that doesn’t land either. Jordan’s run-defense grade in 2025 was 82.1, good for fourth among edge rushers. Garrett was right behind him at 82.5, which ranked third.
That’s not a one-year blip, either. Garrett has now finished with a top-10 PFF grade against the run in three straight seasons.
So when Jordan talked about a “DPOY,” it’s hard not to connect the dots. Garrett has won two of the last three Defensive Player of the Year awards, with Denver Broncos cornerback Patrick Surtain II taking the one in between.
Garrett earned those honors in Cleveland, but he’s a Ram now, and that means this kind of stray is going to hit a little differently in Los Angeles. Rams fans may not care much about the debate itself. They’ll care that one of the league’s loudest edge-rushing voices just took a swing at their guy.
In the end, it’s still just talk. But if Jordan wants to go after the best, even indirectly, he probably needs a sturdier case than that.
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