No controversy: Potential No. 1 pick Myles Garrett would be happy to play for Browns

There was Myles Garrett’s line about not wanting to play in cold weather, then the really weird timing last week of ESPN releasing a video with a joking Garrett pleading the Dallas Cowboys to trade up and pick him. It turned out, that video was from December.

This is not a John Elway/Eli Manning situation. Garrett, the Texas A&M pass rusher who for weeks has been considered the probable top pick in this year’s draft, has no problem with the Cleveland Browns. He said he’d be happy to play for the Browns, and at this moment it seems like a pretty good bet that he’ll be selected first by them (though he won’t be attending the draft in Philadelphia).

So we can put this controversy to rest before it starts. When asked if he’d be OK with playing for the Browns, Garrett replied, “Definitely.”

[Read Eric Edholm’s latest mock NFL draft, which has the Browns taking Garrett with the first pick and four quarterbacks going in the first round.]

“You might say they’re this, they’re that, or I made a comment about cold weather and they kind of put it toward Cleveland – it doesn’t matter to me,” Garrett told Mark Berman of Fox 26 in Houston. “I’ll play wherever they put me.”

This shouldn’t have been much of an issue, but it seemed for a moment last week like it might become one. A video of Garrett pleading with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to trade up and draft him was released by ESPN. But that video was from a college football awards show in December, and Garrett grew up a Cowboys fan. He’s from Arlington, Texas, where the Cowboys play. And he was having some fun shooting the video. But the timing of it, without any context initially (ESPN later clarified the timing and that it was done in jest), made it seem a lot different.

“I kind of forgot I had done it because I really didn’t think it would go anywhere,” he told Fox 26, via the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “It was just supposed to be a funny video, but it kind of gained some traction the last couple of days, but it is what it is.”

So let’s be clear: Unless the Browns fall in love with a quarterback or other prospect, or trade the top pick, they’ll take Garrett. Garrett should be a great cornerstone for a defense that is slowly adding pieces, and Garrett will be happy to be taken first overall by the Browns.

Some years there is drama at this point in the offseason about who the No. 1 pick will be. This year, it seems like there won’t be much. And Garrett won’t create any drama himself.

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