Cleveland Browns DE Myles Garrett says he is ‘grateful’ after automobile accident and needs to play Sunday if medically cleared

BEREA, Ohio — Myles Garrett mentioned that he is “positively grateful” to be alive after his single-car crash Monday and that he is “recovering fairly rapidly” from the left shoulder and proper biceps accidents he suffered within the accident.

“Positively grateful to be right here,” the star Cleveland Browns pass-rusher mentioned Friday. “With what I noticed proper after … the photographs.

“It was a helluva occasion.”

Garrett hasn’t practiced because the crash, however he was listed as questionable for Cleveland’s recreation Sunday on the Atlanta Falcons.

Browns coach Kevin Stefanski mentioned after Friday’s follow that the crew will see how Garrett responds to therapy over the subsequent two days earlier than deciding on whether or not he’ll play.

Talking for the primary time because the crash, Garrett mentioned the choice to play will probably be as much as the coaching employees and coaches, however he added that he “would like to go” if it have been as much as him.

“That is simply my aggressive spirit and my nature,” Garrett mentioned. “Bodily, we’ve got to evaluate that, going as much as the sport. … That is a call we’ll make somewhat nearer to recreation time.”

Garrett crashed his 2021 Porsche close to Wadsworth, Ohio, putting a ditch after leaving the street, based on the Ohio State Freeway Patrol. Garrett’s car then hit a hearth hydrant earlier than overturning a number of occasions. He was launched from an Akron, Ohio, hospital Monday evening, and earlier this week he cleared concussion protocol, the crew mentioned.

Garrett suffered a left shoulder sprain and a proper biceps pressure in addition to cuts and bruises from the crash. He mentioned that he additionally popped a blood vessel in his left eye, which was nonetheless visibly pink together with bruising alongside the left facet of his face.

A feminine passenger who was within the car was taken to the hospital with what was described as a “minor head harm.” The freeway patrol decided that impairment by medicine or alcohol was not suspected and that Garrett and the girl each have been carrying seat belts.

“That basically saved my and my passenger’s life,” Garrett mentioned. “[Allowed us] to stroll away from that crash.”

Garrett mentioned that he wakened in ache Friday morning however was feeling higher after therapy.

“It is gone up and down, however proper now I really feel so much higher than I’ve,” he mentioned. “Emotionally, I am fairly grounded with it. I believe I’ve put it behind me. Bodily, I am nonetheless coping with the accidents that got here together with it.”

Garrett mentioned the accident itself is “a blur” to him and that he does not recall “a lot of what occurred.”

He was issued a quotation for “failure to manage his motorcar,” the freeway patrol mentioned. Garrett was touring at an “unsafe pace for the kind of roadway” he was on, which contributed to the accident, the freeway patrol added. In keeping with the crash report launched to ESPN, Garrett was driving 65 mph on a street with a forty five mph pace restrict.

Garrett, who admitted to racking up rushing tickets previously, known as the accident “a wake-up name” and that he must be “good total with driving.”

“I will nonetheless be right here,” he mentioned. “I simply have to take my time.”