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Transformers : Myles Garrett, le prototype du pass rusher


Powerful, fast, strong … The Browns’ defensive end has it all.

Myles Garrett is a first draft pick, and it’s a defensive-end. Position is important, but the fact that he was picked in front of quarterbacks attests to his potential as soon as he arrived in the NFL.

Here’s why Garrett had been compared to “Wolverine” during his draft process.

“Perfect” morphological standards …

With a height of 1.93m and a weight of 123 kilos, Garrett offers an ideal template in the eyes of the NFL scouts for a pass-rusher, a defensive lineman who comes from the outside and who will have to fight against heavier tackles.

His 90 cm arms and 26 cm hands added to his “hype”. Hyper-long arms and hands the size of a book, so many arguments to be both violent during impacts against offensive linemen and long enough to get out of the blocks encountered. Levers which have enabled him to excel in athletics. He holds records of 16.01m and 50.84m in the shot put and discus, respectively.

Good to know, Garrett was able to be studied by specialists in medicine and biomechanics, and the latter insisted on his chiseled and functional musculature. Besides his protruding and cut-out muscles, he demonstrates insane functional strength due to incredibly strengthened deep muscles.

Insane athletic abilities

Garret ran for 40 yards in 4.64 seconds, but it was mostly his estimated time of 4.57 seconds in training with his Texas A&M college that made analysts salivate.

He was therefore considered an “Uber-athlete” with super strong and explosive hips. His powerful legs allow him to fight through redirect blocks and endow him with a dominant pass-rush ability. Incredibly explosive, his first three presses at the moment of the snap are devastating, his acceleration out of the ordinary.

These aspects are also found in his results at the jump workshops where with 1.04m of dry trigger and 3.25m of horizontal jump, he reached marks reserved for the elite, even in the world of the NFL.

With a little momentum, we can legitimately think that his head exceeds 10 feet, the reference height of the basketball hoop (with his head yes!). With the length of his arms and hands, it’s probably a mark around 3 meters 65-70 that is possible.

Power and athleticism that prevail

His explosiveness is combined with immense strength. 33 reps of bench press at 102 kilos. This suggests that its maximum on 1 single repetition is located, according to its muscle type (% of fast fibers /% slow fibers) between 220 and 260kilos. This gives a frightening presence against the tackles supposed to protect the opposing throwers! His explosiveness at the moment of the snap, associated with this brute force which is his, give him immense power.

Its segments and levers mean that it tends to get up perhaps a little quickly, and the block fight is often won on strong and solid supports on the ground. However, power being the force multiplied by speed, this makes it mind-blowing from the rush phase.

At full speed he is of the caliber of those players who are able to catch up with a running back who would have found a fault and obtained a big gain on the ground, while he is taller by 15 centimeters, and heavier by at least 10 kilos.

Its maximum speed has not been measured with reliability, but we can legitimately think that it is capable of reaching a mark close to 30 km / h, which sheds light on what Myles Garrett represents: a beast capable of developing energy. around 4000 joules!

Like Aaron Donald, DK Metcalf, etc… Garrett is endowed with qualities of speed and power such as exists only for a rare number of individuals in the world. For people like him, regardless of the sport, his body and his qualities would have probably allowed him to succeed in many disciplines.

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