Texas A&M legend Myles Garrett is headed for knee surgery and injured reserve after a rough Rams debut cut short his highly anticipated 2026 season.

Texas A&M football fans have spent more than a decade watching Myles Garrett terrorize quarterbacks. Now one of the greatest defensive players ever produced by the Aggies is facing another kind of fight.

Garrett is expected to undergo knee surgery and be placed on injured reserve by the Los Angeles Rams, putting the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year on the shelf just one game into his first season in Southern California.

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It’s a stunning development after Garrett arrived in Los Angeles as one of the biggest acquisitions of the NFL offseason.

His Rams debut offered warning signs.

Garrett didn’t record a tackle, sack or quarterback hit in Los Angeles’ 27-7 season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia. Afterward, Garrett acknowledged he wasn’t himself physically, describing the performance as the worst version of himself he’d put on the field.

Now we know why.

The knee issue had bothered Garrett throughout training camp, with Rams coach Sean McVay previously acknowledging swelling that limited the star pass rusher’s workload.

For Aggies fans, Garrett’s NFL dominance has become an extension of what started in College Station.

Garrett piled up 32.5 sacks, 48.5 tackles for loss and 145 tackles during three seasons at Texas A&M from 2014-16. He erupted for 11.5 sacks as a freshman, followed with 12.5 in 2015 and finished his Aggies career as a unanimous first-team All-American in 2016.

Cleveland then made him the No. 1 overall selection in the 2017 NFL Draft.

Nearly a decade later, Garrett somehow found another level.

He recorded an NFL-record 23 sacks for the Browns in 2025, breaking the previous single-season mark of 22.5 shared by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt. Garrett added 33 tackles for loss and 39 quarterback hits while earning his second AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award.

That historic season made his move to the Rams one of the league’s biggest offseason storylines.

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Instead, Los Angeles will temporarily have to figure out life without him.

Garrett has overcome double teams, chips and entire offensive game plans designed specifically to stop him throughout his career. The Aggies legend’s latest obstacle isn’t another offensive tackle.

It’s getting that knee healthy enough to become Myles Garrett again.