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Texas A&M Football: Season Rewind - Myles Garrett

Updated Mar. 5, 2020 1:20 a.m. ET

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Texas A&M football star Myles Garrett is not your average college student. He’s not an average football player either.

So many things make Myles Garrett unique. From his passion for paleontology and poetry to his lack of social media. Myles Garrett would be an amazing person without his talents on the field. But Aggie fans everywhere are thankful that he has shared those talents with us every Saturday for the last three seasons.

Garrett missed three games this season due to an ankle injury during the game against Arkansas. Injuries slowed him down this season but did not stop him from leading the team in sacks and tackles for loss. When he return to full strength against UTSA, Garrett recorded 4.5 sacks in a monster performance.

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Myles Garrett was a finalist for the Rotary Lombardi Award and named to the FWAA All-American Team each for the second time. He was named to AP’s All-America First Team, All-SEC First Team and a Walter Camp All-American.

From inside the program, Garrett was named Co-Defensive MVP along side DB Justin Evans. As the accolades flooded in after the season ended nothing seemed to phase Myles Garrett preparation for the Aggies upcoming appearance in the Texas Bowl.

Garrett Focused on the Game Ahead

Many highly ranked draft prospects have announced in the last week plans to forgo playing with their team in the bowl game. Christian McCaffery and Leonard Fournette both want to focus on preparing for the NFL Draft. When asked about his thoughts on their decision, Garrett claims to be “all in for this last game, whether it’s my last game or not”. Garrett, who is definitively in the holiday spirit, did all media appearance today while where a maroon Santa hat. Check it out here.

Garrett has not announced plans to leave Texas A&M and declare for the NFL Draft. Many assume he will declare after the bowl game on Dec. 28. CBSSports has Garrett going 1st overall to the Cleveland Browns. Another publication predicts Garrett will go 2nd overall to San Francisco behind Alabama’s Jonathan Allen. Bleacher Report named Garrett a “Slam Dunk Prospect” for the 2017 Draft and that he is.

While other players across the league have focused on what is best for themselves, Myles Garrett has chosen to be a great teammate and let his stellar on-field performance speak for itself. Whenever he does move on, the future 1st round pick will leave a great legacy A&M to pursue a promising professional career.

*** Stats from ESPN ***