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Key takeaways
- Garrett, a two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, is coming off a 23-sack season, the most by any player in a season since 1982 when individual sacks became official.
- Garrett joins a Rams defense that finished the 2025 season with the eighth-highest pass rush win rate in the league, according to NFL Next Gen Stats.
- Once Garrett plays a down for the Rams, it will mark the third time any player won NFL Defensive Player of the Year and then played the next season with a different team, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
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Garrett, a two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, is coming off a 23-sack season, the most by any player in a season since 1982 when individual sacks became official. Verse, the 2024 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, has been named to the Pro Bowl in his first two NFL seasons.
Garrett joins a Rams defense that finished the 2025 season with the eighth-highest pass rush win rate in the league, according to NFL Next Gen Stats. Now, Los Angeles adds Garrett, who has the third-highest PRWR (25.8%) as an edge defender since entering the NFL as the No. 1 overall pick out of Texas A&M in 2017.
Once Garrett plays a down for the Rams, it will mark the third time any player won NFL Defensive Player of the Year and then played the next season with a different team, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.