The pass rush that decided games: 2025

Myles Garrett finished the 2025 season on top of the league for sacks with 23, playing for Cleveland Browns.

The top five

1. Myles Garrett (CLE) 23 — 2. Brian Burns (NYG) 16.5 — 3. Danielle Hunter (HOU) 15 — 4. Aidan Hutchinson (DET) 14.5 — 5. Nik Bonitto (DEN) 14.

The gap between first and fifth is 9, which is the honest measure of how much daylight the leader actually had.

What the box score does not carry is the personnel chess. Heavier packages early forced a matchup that never got fixed, and by the fourth quarter the adjustments were coming too late to matter.

The full board is on the leaders page, filterable by position, and every name on it links through to the player card and the season stat line behind the number.