I want to leave: Cleveland Browns QB admit he wants to leave

Browns’ Myles Garrett admits he nearly quit after the helmet incident and wants to clear the air with the Steelers QB.
The defensive end hopes to have the opportunity to meet with the quarterback in the future.

Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett admitted in an interview published Wednesday that he considered leaving football following his altercation with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph last season.

During one of their games, Garrett removed Rudolph’s helmet and swung it at him. Garrett was later suspended for the remainder of the season. He later claimed Rudolph used a racial slur during the scuffle, which enraged him. Rudolph denied this.

Garrett told the Cleveland Plain-Dealer that he considered leaving the game.

“I did. “Whether it was their decision or mine, the question was whether this would continue,” Garrett said.

The defensive star expressed curiosity about his future endeavors outside of football. He said he thought he’d be fine, but he loved the game too much to abandon it.

“I love football. I enjoy competing, I enjoy my teammates, and I genuinely want to win, but at the end of the day, I am still a man. I’m still a young man with a long life ahead of him, and it’s about much more than football. I would’ve just moved on to something else I enjoy and found another way to channel my competitive nature, whether it was trying out for a basketball team or playing baseball like [Michael] Jordan,” he said.

“I would have found something else I enjoyed doing, whether it was as a writing coach or otherwise. I would have left with my head held high and not looked back.”

Garrett, who was reinstated prior to the start of the 2020 season and is expected to play in the team’s first game against the Baltimore Ravens, said he hopes to talk to Rudolph.