PFF Awards 2025: Myles Garrett wins Defensive Player of the Year

• No defensive player comes close to Garrett’s production: For the fourth year in a row, Garrett has claimed the honor of being the highest-rated defensive player in the NFL after posting a 92.7 PFF overall grade this season. And he broke the NFL season-long sack record.

• The hardware is piling up: Garrett already took home the PFF Dwight Stephenson Award – given to the NFL’s best player regardless of position – and now he claims PFF Defensive Player of the Year honors.

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Cleveland Browns standout Myles Garrett took home the PFF Dwight Stephenson Award – given to the NFL’s best player regardless of position – so the title of Defensive Player of the Year becomes a bit of a formality.

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For the fourth year in a row, Garrett has claimed the honor of being the highest-rated defensive player in the NFL after posting a 92.7 PFF overall grade this season. Each of these four campaigns ranks in the top 12 among all qualifying defensive linemen in the PFF era (since 2006).

The NFL’s new single-season sack leader is the league’s gold standard as a pass rusher, with his record-breaking 23.0 sacks 6.5 sacks higher than any other player in 2025. But it’s not just plays that end in a sack that make Garrett a productive pass rusher; it’s the consistency with which he makes his presence felt. Thanks to a 24.6% pass-rush winning percentage, Garrett led the NFL with a PFF pass-rush grade of 93.3.

As an explosive pass rusher, much of the heavy lifting goes into winning this award, but to take home the hardware a player must be dominant in multiple facets of the game. Garrett applies that to a T, with his 13 tackles for loss or no gain ranking in the top eight among all defenders and his 82.5 PFF run-defense grade ranking in the top five among defensive linemen.

Together, Garrett is the only defensive lineman in 2025 to post a PFF pass-rush grade of 90.0-plus and a PFF run-defense grade of 80.0-plus. He more than earned his third consecutive PFF Defensive Player of the Year trophy.