It\u2019s fine<\/a>. This is voluntary,\u201d Monken said, via video from 92.3 The Fan. \u201cWe\u2019re making a big deal out of this. We really are. It\u2019s voluntary. We have other guys besides Myles that aren\u2019t here. I wish they were here. They\u2019ll be ready. We expect them to be ready, and we\u2019ll be fired up when they\u2019re here. <\/p>\n\u201cAnd really all the players have informed us. They\u2019ve been unbelievable with their communication. So, has Myles. They\u2019ve communicated. Doesn\u2019t mean I like the communication, but it\u2019s voluntary. I wish they were all here. I\u2019ve said that plenty of times. But every one of them is a Brown, and we\u2019re excited that they are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Denzel Ward and Jerry Jeudy also were absent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Garrett has a $1 million workout bonus for 2026, forcing him to participate in 84.375 percent of the offseason sessions and all minicamps and OTA days. Since Tuesday began a minicamp, Garrett presumably has lost $1 million of his 2026 base compensation.<\/p>\n
Monken said he can\u2019t speak to whether defensive coordinator Mike Rutenberg has communicated with Garrett.<\/p>\n
Garrett requested a trade a year ago before signing a four-year, $160 million deal with the Browns in March 2025. After the Browns went 5-12 last season, the Defensive Player of the Year again expressed displeasure with the organization\u2019s losing ways.<\/p>\n
The Browns and Garrett agreed to modified language in the All-Pro\u2019s contract this offseason that makes it easier for the team to trade Garrett. However, General Manager Andrew Berry insisted last month that the team wants to make Garrett \u201ca career Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myles Garrett attended the Cleveland Cavaliers game against the Toronto Raptors on Friday. He is not attending the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-598510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}