Myles Garrett Net Worth 2026: The $60M Rams Star’s Fortune

Myles Garrett‘s net worth is estimated at $50 million to $65 million as of November 2026. The anchor figure is the $60 million published by Celebrity Net Worth, and it sits in a strange-looking gap: Garrett has already banked roughly $151.6 million in NFL cash, yet his estimated wealth is less than half that sum. The difference is the story of this article — federal and state tax on nine-figure earnings, agent fees, and a lifestyle that includes a $23 million Hidden Hills compound — set against a contract history that has now reset the market for defensive players twice, first in Cleveland and then again in Los Angeles.

Early Life and Background

Myles Lorenz Garrett was born on December 29, 1995, in Arlington, Texas, and grew up in a household where elite sport was the family business. His father, Lawrence Garrett, and mother, Audrey Garrett, raised three children who each reached a high level in their chosen sport. His half-brother, Sean Williams, played in the NBA. His sister, Brea Garrett, became a track and field champion at Texas A&M University. That sibling context matters to the money story that follows: Garrett was not a late bloomer discovered by chance, but a child of an athletic family who was pointed at professional sport from the start and who had older siblings modeling what the top level demanded.

At James Martin High School in Arlington, Garrett lettered in football, basketball and track and field. As a senior he recorded 19.5 sacks and won the Landry Award in 2013 as the top high school football player in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Recruiting services rated him a five-star prospect and the No. 1 overall player in the 2014 recruiting class. He committed to Texas A&M in October 2013, choosing the Aggies over a national field of suitors. The decision also shaped his first endorsement: Texas A&M was an adidas school, and adidas signed Garrett before the 2017 draft, a relationship that would run through most of his early NFL career.

Two lesser-known threads from his youth still show up in his public image and his spending. Garrett has spoken for years about a love of dinosaurs and paleontology, an interest unusual enough that it became a signature part of his persona rather than a footnote. He is also known for elaborate Halloween displays at his home, a habit that turned into an annual local event in Ohio and a small but real part of his brand: the most feared pass rusher in football spending weeks building a haunted house. Both details matter because they explain where some of his off-field attention — and some of his endorsement appeal — comes from. Sponsors were buying more than sacks; they were buying a player with visible interests outside football.

Education

Garrett spent three seasons at Texas A&M, from 2014 to 2016, and left after his junior year for the NFL draft. The college numbers explain why he could skip his senior season without a second thought. As a freshman in 2014 he set a school freshman sack record with 5.5 sacks in his first six games, then broke the SEC freshman sack record with nine sacks in nine games, and was named SEC Freshman of the Year. In 2015 he won the Bill Willis Trophy, given to the top collegiate defensive lineman in the country, and earned first-team All-SEC honors. In 2016 he was a unanimous All-American.

Across 34 college games he finished with 31 sacks and 141 tackles. His final college season produced 8.5 sacks, 32 tackles, 15 tackles for loss and 10 quarterback hurries, numbers recorded while opposing offenses built entire game plans around stopping him. He declared for the 2017 NFL Draft after forgoing his senior year, and scouts ranked him the top defensive prospect in the class after the NFL Combine and his Texas A&M pro day. The Browns made him the highest draft pick in Texas A&M history. For a net worth profile, the college career is the foundation of everything that follows: a No. 1 overall pick’s rookie contract is fully guaranteed by the league’s wage scale, so Garrett’s first fortune was locked in before he played a single NFL snap.

Career Journey

The Cleveland Browns selected Garrett with the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft on April 27, 2017. On May 19, 2017, he signed a fully guaranteed four-year rookie contract worth $30.41 million, including a $20.25 million signing bonus — more than $20 million paid almost immediately, before his first regular-season game. Injuries limited his rookie season, yet he still made the PFWA All-Rookie Team, and by 2018 he was a Pro Bowl selection and a second-team All-Pro. The Browns later exercised the fifth-year option on his rookie deal, a year that was eventually folded into his first major extension.

The 2019 season brought the most damaging incident of his career. In a November game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Garrett struck quarterback Mason Rudolph with Rudolph’s own helmet during a late-game brawl. The NFL suspended Garrett indefinitely, ending his season, and he was reinstated in February 2020. The episode cost him games, a share of his 2019 pay, and — for a time — his reputation. It also marked a turning point: the seasons that followed were the most disciplined and productive of his career, and no comparable incident has followed. For wealth purposes, the suspension is a reminder that NFL earnings are not guaranteed week to week in the way fans assume; conduct, injury and availability all sit between a contract’s headline value and the cash that actually arrives.

In July 2020, Garrett signed a five-year, $125 million extension with Cleveland that ran through the 2026 season, with $100 million in total guarantees and a reported $21 million signing bonus. At the time it made him the highest-paid defensive player in the league, at a $25 million average annual value. The deal paid him through his prime years and, combined with the rookie contract, put his career cash earnings on a path past $100 million before he turned 30. He rewarded the investment with sustained production: eight straight double-digit sack seasons, and the first player in NFL history with 12 or more sacks in six consecutive seasons.

Garrett won his first NFL Defensive Player of the Year award in 2023, the same year he deepened his Cleveland roots by buying a minority stake in the Cavaliers. By the end of the 2024 season he was the Browns’ all-time sack leader. Then came February 2025, when he publicly requested a trade, saying he did not want to be part of another rebuild. The Browns answered not with a trade but with money: in March 2025 he signed a four-year, $160 million extension in new money, at a $40 million average annual value, making him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history at the time. The deal kept him under contract through 2030, into his age-35 season.

That record lasted four months. In July 2025, Pittsburgh’s T.J. Watt signed an extension worth about $123 million over three seasons, at a $41 million average annual value, passing Garrett’s $40 million mark. The leapfrogging is a useful measure of Garrett’s market: his deals have repeatedly set the price that the next star defender then beats. It also explains why his 2025 season carried so much attention. Playing on a Browns team that finished 5–12, Garrett recorded 23 sacks in 2025, breaking the NFL single-season record of 22.5 shared by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt, and he did it with 60 tackles, 33 tackles for loss and 39 quarterback hits. He was a unanimous choice for his second Defensive Player of the Year award, receiving all 50 first-place votes.

The record season did not settle his future. In March 2026 the Browns adjusted his contract language, pushing back option bonus dates — a change that made a post-June 1 trade financially workable for Cleveland. General manager Andrew Berry insisted the adjustment was unrelated to a trade. On June 1, 2026, the Browns traded Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams for Pro Bowl edge rusher Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 second-round pick and a 2029 third-round pick. Garrett waived the no-trade clause in his deal to facilitate the move, according to NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero. He left Cleveland as the franchise’s all-time sack leader with 125.5 sacks in 134 games, with five first-team All-Pro selections and seven Pro Bowl selections.

Rise to Fame

Garrett’s fame never depended on a single breakout game. It accumulated the way elite defensive production accumulates: season after season of double-digit sacks on teams that rarely gave him a national stage. The 2023 Defensive Player of the Year award made him a household name among football fans; the 2025 sack record made him one beyond football. Breaking a record held jointly by Strahan — a television star as well as a Hall of Famer — and Watt put Garrett’s name into record-book conversations that reach casual viewers, and it arrived in the same weeks that his footwear became a story of its own, when he was spotted in custom Jordan Brand cleats and gloves while chasing sack No. 23.

The Rams trade completed the rise. Moving to Los Angeles, to a contender coached by Sean McVay, with a restructured deal that made him the largest contract in Rams franchise history, turned a great player on a losing team into the centerpiece of a Super Bowl push. NFL players voted him the No. 1 player in the league’s Top 100 list for 2026, ahead of every quarterback in football. That ranking, voted by peers rather than media, is the sharpest single measure of his standing inside the sport — and it arrived just as his market value, in contract terms, reached its peak.

Main Sources of Income

Garrett’s wealth rests on three legs, and their proportions explain why his net worth is $60 million rather than $150 million. The first and largest leg is NFL salary and bonuses: about $151.6 million in career cash from contracts alone as of early 2026, per Celebrity Net Worth’s contract accounting. The second leg is endorsements, led by long footwear deals with adidas and then Reebok, plus a portfolio of smaller brand partnerships. The third leg is equity: his minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers, bought in October 2023, whose value is not publicly disclosed and which no net worth estimate can price precisely. That undisclosed equity is one reason honest estimates carry a range — the Cavaliers stake could be worth a few million or considerably more, and nobody outside the deal knows.

Tax is the silent partner in every figure in this article. Garrett earned his largest paychecks in Ohio, which taxes high earners at the state level on top of federal tax, and he now plays in California, which has the highest top state income tax rate in the country. Agent fees, typically around 3 percent for NFL players, plus training, travel and support costs, take another slice. A player who grosses $151.6 million and keeps roughly 45 to 55 percent of it after tax and fees lands in the $68–83 million range before living costs and investments — which is exactly where a $60 million net worth estimate, after years of high spending, becomes plausible rather than puzzling. Readers who compare his $151.6 million earnings total with his $60 million net worth are looking at the difference between gross pay and kept wealth.

Salary and Earnings

Garrett’s contract history reads as a ladder with four rungs. The rookie deal (2017): four years, $30.41 million, fully guaranteed, with a $20.25 million signing bonus. The first extension (July 2020): five years, $125 million, $100 million in total guarantees, $25 million average annual value. The second extension (March 2025): four years, $160 million in new money, $40 million average annual value. The Rams restructure (June 2026): five years, $208.2 million in total value, with a $35.7 million signing bonus.

The March 2025 guarantees deserve a careful note, because outlets report two different numbers and both are correct about different things. News reports at signing put total guarantees at $123.5 million (some outlets round to $123.6 million). Over The Cap lists $88.8 million as fully guaranteed at signing. The gap is the difference between money guaranteed for injury, skill and cap at different trigger points in the contract, and money that becomes fully guaranteed only if Garrett remains on the roster on future dates. Any profile that quotes one number without the other is simplifying a contract that was deliberately structured with layers. The same caution applies to the Rams deal: Spotrac reports $37 million fully guaranteed in 2026 and $99 million guaranteed through the 2028 season, while the $208.2 million headline total includes option bonuses and void-year accounting spread across the life of the deal.

The Rams restructure rearranged Garrett’s money rather than handing him a second fortune on top of the first. His 2026 salary rose by about $5.5 million, from $31.5 million to $37 million, funded by money moved from later years. His cap hits under the new deal run $8.84 million in 2026, $15.02 million in 2027, $27.58 million in 2028, $39.88 million in 2029 and $48.17 million in 2030, with another $39.91 million not scheduled to count against the cap until the contract voids in February 2031, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero as reported by Bleacher Report and Heavy. The structure — eight void years for cap purposes, per Spotrac’s Michael Ginnitti — is why Los Angeles could absorb the largest contract in franchise history while carrying a 2026 cap hit under $9 million. For Garrett personally, the cash is what matters: $37 million fully guaranteed in 2026 alone.

On the field, the Rams chapter started badly. Garrett’s debut came on September 11, 2026, against the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia, a 27–7 loss in which he recorded no tackles — his first game without a tackle since Week 11 of the 2024 season. He blamed a lingering knee issue, calling it the worst version of himself he had put on film; Rams coach Sean McVay described swelling in the knee. Garrett underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in mid-September and was placed on injured reserve on September 17, 2026, with NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reporting he could return to practice as early as Week 8. The injury does not change his guaranteed money, but it is the main risk to the back half of his earnings: the $329 million-plus career total that Celebrity Net Worth projects if he plays through 2030 depends on him staying on the field into his mid-thirties.

Year by year, the shape of his earnings is a slow climb that steepens sharply after 2025. His rookie deal paid him roughly $30 million across four seasons. The 2020 extension paid him $25 million a year on average through 2026. The 2025 extension lifted that average to $40 million. The Rams deal lifts it again, to about $41.6 million a year on paper — though the cap accounting and the void years mean the cash flow and the headline average are not the same thing. Endorsement income sits on top of all of this and is never disclosed in full; footwear deals for players of Garrett’s stature are typically worth low-to-mid seven figures a year, which over a decade adds several million dollars to the total without ever appearing in a contract database.

Businesses and Investments

The Cavaliers stake is Garrett’s most significant investment and his least transparent one. On October 25, 2023, the Cavaliers announced that Garrett had finalized a deal to purchase a minority stake in the franchise and would serve as an official brand ambassador. Owner Dan Gilbert’s statement called Garrett a Cleveland icon and welcomed him as a partner and investor. The size of the stake was never announced, and the deal was negotiated on Garrett’s behalf by Klutch Sports Group. NBA franchise valuations have climbed steeply — minority stakes in NBA teams now routinely price at multi-billion-dollar team valuations — so even a small percentage could represent a large share of Garrett’s net worth. But without a disclosed percentage, no responsible estimate can put a number on it, and our $50–65 million range treats the stake as valuable but unquantified upside rather than a counted asset.

Garrett has also put money into startups. Endorsement databases credit him with an investment in Buzzer, a sports highlights app, beginning in April 2023. He has spoken about wanting to plant roots in Cleveland and build a life after football there — a plan the Rams trade complicated, but which the Cavaliers stake keeps alive in financial terms even after his Ohio house sale. Unlike players who launch clothing lines or restaurants with their name on the door, Garrett’s business profile is quieter: equity in a sports franchise and a small set of startup bets, rather than a consumer brand empire. That restraint is part of why his wealth is concentrated in contract earnings rather than business income, and why his net worth tracks his playing career so closely.

Brand Deals and Sponsorships

Garrett’s endorsement career has followed his footwear. Adidas signed him in April 2017, days before the draft, and he wore adidas throughout his early NFL career. In September 2021 he began working with Reebok as an ambassador, and in March 2022 he signed an expanded multiyear Reebok deal that made him one of the brand’s most visible athletes, featured across its Classics, Running, Cross-Training and Basketball lines. Reebok’s global brand marketing vice president, Caroline Machen, said the company was excited to usher in a new era with Garrett as a big part of it, and Garrett joined a Reebok roster headlined by Allen Iverson and Shaquille O’Neal — the players he grew up admiring. The timing mattered: Authentic Brands Group had completed its purchase of Reebok from adidas on March 1, 2022, and Garrett was a statement signing for the new ownership.

The footwear story took another turn in December 2025. As Garrett closed in on his record 23rd sack, he was spotted wearing custom Jordan Brand cleats and gloves, with Jordan logos covering his adidas Freak X Carbon cleats. Sports Illustrated reported that a Jordan Brand deal would be a major win for both sides, while noting that Garrett might simply have been a footwear free agent wearing custom gear for the record chase. No confirmed Jordan Brand contract has been reported, so this article treats the Jordan gear as spotted, not signed — a distinction competitors blur. Endorsement listings also credit Garrett with a Bounty paper towels ambassadorship beginning in January 2024 and partnerships across roughly 28 brands in total, though most of those deals are small, short-term or regional, and their fees are not disclosed. The honest summary is that footwear money — adidas, then Reebok — is the core of his endorsement income, and everything else is incremental.

Houses, Cars and Other Assets

Garrett’s Ohio home was, for years, the most settled part of his financial life. He had the house in Wadsworth, Ohio, built in 2018, about a year after he was drafted, and lived in it through his entire Browns tenure even as his pay rose tenfold. Realtor.com reported he purchased the property for $1.3 million in November 2018. The house has five bedrooms and five to six bathrooms across roughly 4,300 to 4,500 square feet, with a grand office, a spa, a full gym, a theater, a custom bar, walk-in closets and a gaming room. After the Rams trade, he listed it for $2.1 million in June 2026 and sold it within days for $2.15 million — $50,000 over asking, per Realtor.com. The sale closed a chapter he had once said would not close: in October 2023, around the Cavaliers purchase, he had said he would not sell his house and leave Cleveland, and that he planned to support the Cavs and Browns there for a long time. The trade changed that plan in a matter of months.

The replacement is on a different scale. Multiple outlets reported in June 2026 that Garrett closed on a new Hidden Hills compound in Los Angeles County for approximately $23 million, in the same exclusive neighborhood where Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford lives. Hidden Hills is a gated enclave favored by athletes and entertainers, and a $23 million purchase there — roughly ten times what he paid in Ohio — is the single largest asset move of Garrett’s life. It also raises his cost base sharply: property tax, insurance and upkeep on a $23 million estate run far higher than on the Wadsworth house, and California’s tax regime applies to his Rams income as well. The move is best read as a commitment to Los Angeles for the rest of his playing career, and as a bet that his Rams earnings will support it.

Garrett’s cars have generated more headlines than his houses, and not all of them good. On September 26, 2022, he flipped his 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S after practice, veering off a rural road near his Wadsworth home, hitting a fire hydrant and rolling several times. He suffered a sprained shoulder, a strained biceps, cuts and bruises, and a ruptured blood vessel in his left eye; his passenger was also treated for minor injuries. The Ohio State Highway Patrol cited him for failure to control his vehicle and unsafe speed — he told officers he thought he was going 65 mph in a 45 mph zone — and drugs and alcohol were not suspected. He missed one game and played on with the shoulder injury. In August 2025, Strongsville police stopped him at 2:01 a.m. on Interstate 71 and cited him for driving a Ferrari 100 mph in a 60 mph zone, after the Browns had flown back from their preseason opener at Carolina. In February 2026 he was cited again for speeding, clocked at 94 mph in a 70 mph zone, according to court records first reported by FOX 8 Cleveland. The pattern is a genuine financial risk factor: a player whose driving has repeatedly drawn police attention is one serious crash away from an injury that could end the earnings run his wealth depends on.

Awards and Achievements

Garrett’s trophy case is the reason his contracts keep resetting the market. He is a two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year (2023 and 2025), with the 2025 award won unanimously on all 50 first-place votes. He has five first-team All-Pro selections and seven Pro Bowl selections. He holds the NFL single-season sack record with 23 sacks in 2025, breaking the 22.5 shared by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt. He is the Cleveland Browns’ all-time sack leader with 125.5 sacks, and the first player in league history with 12 or more sacks in six consecutive seasons, plus eight straight double-digit sack seasons. He was voted No. 1 on the NFL Top 100 Players list for 2026 by his fellow players. In college he was a unanimous All-American in 2016, SEC Freshman of the Year in 2014, and winner of the 2015 Bill Willis Trophy. Each of those lines fed directly into a contract negotiation: the 2023 award strengthened his hand for the 2025 extension, and the 2025 record season made the Rams willing to pay the largest contract in franchise history for a 30-year-old defensive end with a knee issue.

Net Worth Growth Over the Years

Garrett’s wealth grew in steps that track his contracts, not in a smooth line. The rookie deal made him a multimillionaire at 21; the 2020 extension moved him into the tens of millions; the 2025 extension and the 2026 Rams restructure pushed his gross earnings past $150 million while his net worth estimate settled around $60 million, held back by tax, fees and the Hidden Hills purchase. The table below is an estimate of that path, built from contract dates and published net worth figures, not from bank records — which is why the early years carry ranges and the 2026 figure carries the widest honest band in the article.

The pattern to notice is the widening gap between gross and net after 2025. Garrett’s paper earnings jumped by tens of millions with the Rams deal, but his estimated wealth rose by a smaller amount, because the new money is spread across future seasons, taxed in California, and partly committed to a $23 million house. If he plays through 2030 and collects the full value of the Rams deal, Celebrity Net Worth’s projection of more than $329 million in career earnings becomes reachable — and his net worth could climb well past the current range. If the knee problem that ended his 2026 debut lingers, the back years of that deal are the ones at risk.

Social Media Presence

Garrett is active on Instagram and X, where he posts training footage, game-day content, Halloween build updates and glimpses of his interests outside football, from dinosaurs to basketball. His social presence is smaller and less commercial than those of quarterbacks with similar earnings — he has never built a personal brand empire on social media, and his endorsement value comes from his play and his footwear deals rather than from sponsored posts. That restraint fits the rest of his financial profile: his money comes from contracts and one franchise equity stake, not from monetizing attention. The accounts are still useful to fans tracking his recovery from knee surgery, since his own posts and the Rams’ updates are the fastest public signal of when he returns to practice.

Personal Life

Garrett is not married. He has been reported since 2025 to be dating Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim, a pairing of two athletes at the top of very different sports that drew attention when it surfaced. Combined-net-worth articles have put the pair’s joint figure near $70 million, using $60 million for Garrett and about $10 million for Kim — a neat number that should be treated as arithmetic on two separate estimates, not as a joint financial fact.

His family ties remain central to his public image. In September 2021, a mural of Garrett as a young child with his late grandmother Juanita was unveiled in Cleveland’s Playhouse Square district, a tribute he commissioned in downtown Cleveland. His sister Brea’s track career at Texas A&M and his brother Sean’s NBA career give him a family circle that understands professional sport’s pressures firsthand. Off the field, his known interests — poetry, dinosaurs and paleontology, Halloween displays, basketball — have all fed into endorsement and media opportunities, from the Reebok campaigns that leaned on his personality to the Cavaliers partnership that leaned on his love of basketball. He has also had to manage the other side of fame: the speeding citations and the 2022 crash are part of his record, and he told reporters after the crash that he knew he was lucky and promised to change his behavior — a promise the later tickets show he has not fully kept.

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