Eagles reportedly chasing Myles Garrett with AJ Brown trade on the horizon

The Eagles are reportedly making a strong push to trade for Myles Garrett, and if that sentence didn’t shake something loose in your chest, go ahead and check your pulse.

Let me set the table.

Garrett — the best defensive player breathing — has decided he’s finished with Cleveland. He’s been ghosting the Browns since last season ended. He reportedly hasn’t even bothered to meet the new coaching staff. This is a man who signed a four-year, $160 million extension with $123.5 million guaranteed barely a year ago and is now treating the building like a lease he’s trying to break.

And Philadelphia is circling like it smells blood.

The Cowboys, Eagles and Rams are showing trade interest in Myles Garrett, per @MaryKayCabot.

Cleveland appears more willing than ever to discuss a Garrett blockbuster post-June 1st, but it could require a maximum haul of three first-round picks to get negotiations escalated. pic.twitter.com/nvF2y7wTFI

— Evan Sidery (@esidery) June 1, 2026

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Per the reporting, the Eagles and the Los Angeles Rams are the two teams currently blowing up Browns GM Andrew Berry’s phone. The Rams have floated what’s being called a “Ricky Williams-esque” offer, which — if your draft history is rusty — means they’re prepared to hand Cleveland a stack of picks tall enough to require a building permit. Back in 1999, the franchise now in Washington squeezed two entire drafts’ worth of selections out of New Orleans for the right to take Ricky Williams fifth overall.

The Eagles Are Going to Have to Cough Up a Number That Should Be Against the Law

Cleveland wants three first-round picks. Or two firsts and a young player they actually covet. For a defensive end who turns the calendar at 30.

Here’s the thing, though. Garrett is worth it, and I hate how much I mean that.

This is a guy coming off an NFL-record 23 sacks. Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in three seasons. Seven Pro Bowls, five First-Team All-Pro nods, and at least 14 sacks in six straight years. You don’t find that guy in the draft. You don’t develop that guy. You trade a war chest for that guy and you sleep just fine.

Is 30 old for a pass-rusher? Sure. Is the dead money attached to this whole thing genuinely upsetting? Also yes. I’m not pretending the math is clean. But the Eagles aren’t built to sit on their hands, and elite edge rushers don’t shake loose in their prime very often. When the universe leaves a door cracked, you don’t ask it to fill out a questionnaire first.

What the Eagles Do After the A.J. Brown Business Is the Part That Actually Matters

The Eagles are reportedly set to land at least one high-value draft pick whenever the A.J. Brown trade to New England officially goes through — and I stress whenever, because as of right now that deal is still living in rumor purgatory, not on the transaction wire. But if and when it’s done, that’s the ammunition. That’s the pick that turns “the Eagles are interested” into “the Eagles can actually pull this off.”

So you can see the outline forming. Move Brown. Bank the capital. Turn around and point all of it at the best defensive player alive.

Would it gut the draft cupboard? Absolutely. Would it be reckless? A little. Would it make every quarterback in the NFC East lose sleep until at least September? Now we’re talking.

Garrett has the sacks. He has the hardware. He has a grudge against the team still paying him. He has a contract someone else is about to inherit. And he could be walking into a Philadelphia parking spot before camp opens.

Let the rest of the league panic. We’ve done crazier for less.