CLEVELAND — Myles Garrett moved to the podium after the Browns’ 21-15 loss to the New York Giants with a gait of a 95-year-old man, not the feared pass rusher wearing the No. 95 jersey.
The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year walked gingerly, seemingly thinking about each step before he took it. Each one of them was accompanied by the facial expressions of a person who was feeling 1,000 nails in his feet as he walked.
Garrett had played through the pain in his feet the previous two weeks as well. However, whether it was the season-opening loss to the Dallas Cowboys or last Sunday’s road win at the Jacksonville Jaguars, he never quite showed the outward pain he was carried the way he did after the loss to the Giants…