Myles Garrett could retire tomorrow and he'd likely end up immortalized in the Football Hall of Fame in Canton regardless. 

Nine years into his career – all of them with the Cleveland Browns – he's racked up 113.5 sacks, which ranks 38th all-time. He's already taken home one AP Defensive Player of the Year Award, and could be on his way to winning a second one this season. With 11 sacks this season, he's on pace to shatter his career-high of 16 in a season, and could even make a run at the NFL's single-season sack record as well. The list of potential accomplishments goes on, and on. 

Awards, records and GOAT debates have surrounded Garrett since he entered the league, really. It's nothing new for him. And while his individual legacy is important to him, at this stage of his career, those things are very much secondary to what he really wants to accomplish in the NFL. 

"The main thing is winning," Garrett said on Friday about being in the mix for many of the aforementioned accolades. "However many [sacks] I can get on the way to getting a win that's more or less than the record, it doesn't matter to me. Like I said, I would trade all the ones I had back against the Patriots to have a win. I don't want to say that to be ungrateful because I was blessed to get that many. But it's just not that deep to me." 

It's hardly the first time Garrett has prioritized team goals over his own. Just last year, after recording a sack against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 16,  Garrett became one of the fastest players to reach 100 sacks, tying NFL legends Lawrence Taylor and Reggie White by doing it in just 115 games. 

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He also joined Taylor as the only two players to record at least 12 sacks in five consecutive seasons. Asked about it afterwards he pointed to all the winning Taylor did throughout his career, including two Super Bowls.

“That’s a nice accomplishment, but we remember LT because he won," Garrett said at the time. 

During the offseason Garrett cited wanting to win as the motivation behind the very public trade request he made during radio row at the Super Bowl. As the story goes, he reneged on that request, signed a massive deal with Cleveland, and stayed. 

In the midst of a 2-7 season, critics use that against him as he voices his frustrations regularly, claiming he signed up for the losing. For Garrett, it's simple. His motivations haven't changed just because he "got his money." 

"I want to go out there and have a good game. I feel like that's what I can do," said Garrett. "That's what they brought me here for and I feel like that's a way in which we can win — me going in and taking over. So all things come to fruition and if some of my personal goals happen that's great, but I want to go and continue to play after January. That's the biggest goal."

While the losing continues, there's a case to be made that Garrett is putting together his best season yet, in year nine nonetheless. As incredible as he's been through nine games, it's the plays he's missed – especially ones he believes could have potentially changed some result – that stick out to him the most. 

"I don't even think about it like that," said Garrett. "I feel like there's still lots of plays out there to be made. There's plays that I want back, I don't necessarily regret, but I wish I would've been more prepared for or had a different plan for. But am I playing well? Absolutely. Can I be playing better? Yeah, and I want to do that." 

Garrett can downplay his performances, but everyone else remains in awe of his greatness. Even his opponents.

Just two days out from facing Garrett and the Browns head-to-head, Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews gushed about the star DE. 

"Obviously he's one-of-one," Andrews said. "Probably, if not the best athlete of all time on defense, if not the best defensive end of all time, so we gotta be ready for him."

Praise from one of his peers was something Garrett finally couldn't ignore. 

"It means a lot, I have a lot of respect for him and how he plays the game," Garrett responded. "I mean, it's just been a battle for as long as I can remember against those guys and him, as well. So it's an honor to hear that and it won't stop me from running through his chest on Sunday, but I do appreciate those comments and have a helluva run of respect for him."