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title: "Myles Garrett Lists His Ohio Home After Trade to the Rams"
description: "Myles Garrett, one of the NFL's best defensive players, has put his home near Cleveland up for sale for $2.1 million. It is a routine relocation with an unusual backstory: the Browns traded him to the Los Angeles Rams in June, so he is moving because his team moved him."
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author: "Sofia Russo"
published: 2026-07-24T04:41:40.000Z
updated: 2026-07-24T04:41:40.000Z
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tags: ["nfl", "myles-garrett", "cleveland-browns", "los-angeles-rams"]
---
# Myles Garrett Lists His Ohio Home After Trade to the Rams

Myles Garrett, one of the NFL's best defensive players, has put his home near Cleveland up for sale for $2.1 million. It is a routine relocation with an unusual backstory: the Browns traded him to the Los Angeles Rams in June, so he is moving because his team moved him.

A house going on the market is not usually news, but this one comes with a story. Myles Garrett, the star pass rusher, has listed his home near Cleveland for sale, [ESPN reports](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49435178/myles-garrett-cleveland-home-sale-los-angeles-rams), a few weeks after being traded away from the city he played in for years.

## The facts, in the right order

It is worth getting the sequence right, because the obvious assumption, that a player selling his house is agitating to leave, is the opposite of what happened here.

According to ESPN, Garrett was traded to the Los Angeles Rams in June, and it was not his request. The Cleveland Browns dealt him to Los Angeles in exchange for the pass rusher Jared Verse and multiple future draft picks, in what ESPN described as a blockbuster move by the Browns. After the trade, Garrett and the Rams reworked his contract, with the player set to earn at least $37 million for the 2026 season. The house sale follows all that: he is relocating because his employer sent him to a new city.

As for the property itself, ESPN reports it is a five-bedroom, six-bathroom home of about 4,300 square feet on two acres in Wadsworth, Ohio, listed for $2.1 million. Built in 2018, the year after Garrett was drafted first overall, it has the amenities of a star athlete's home: a gym, a theater, a custom bar and a four-car garage with an office or studio above it.

## Why a house sale is a story at all

The interest here is not real estate; it is what the sale represents.

Garrett was, for years, the face of the Browns' defense, a player a franchise builds around. That Cleveland traded him at all is the significant fact, and the house going up for sale is simply the tidy, human epilogue to it: the physical act of a star leaving a place he was closely identified with. It is the kind of small, concrete detail that makes an abstract transaction, a name moved from one roster to another, feel real.

## The trade behind it

For readers who do not follow the NFL, the trade is the actual news, and it is a notable one.

Elite pass rushers are among the most valued and least frequently traded players in American football, because they are so hard to replace. A team moving one, especially one as accomplished as Garrett, is unusual and tells you something about how the Browns are thinking about their future, trading a proven star for a younger one in Verse and a stack of draft picks that can be spent on rebuilding. The Rams, on the other side, added a premier defender and committed real money to keep him, a bet on winning now.

Garrett's house going on the market is the footnote to that decision. But it is a footnote that captures the whole thing in miniature: a great player, uprooted not by his own choice but by his team's, packing up and heading west, with a $2.1 million listing left behind as the last trace of where he used to be.

## Sources

- [Myles Garrett lists Cleveland-area home for sale after trade to Rams](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49435178/myles-garrett-cleveland-home-sale-los-angeles-rams)