Sean McVay Says Myles Garrett Beat Double-Team and Chip Block in ‘Freaky’ Rams Camp Rep
Myles Garrett is making Sean McVay a believer, one practice rep at a time. The Rams head coach singled out a specific sequence from a recent training camp session at Loyola Marymount University, describing a moment when his newly acquired edge rusher fought through a slide protection and a chip block — and still won.
McVay broke it down on the team’s Inside Rams Camp feature Friday. “Did you see, when we had the slide to him and a chip [block], and he had six hands on him. And he still found a way to win? That was freaky,” McVay said, according to a clip posted on X by Ari Meirov on August 7, 2026, who paraphrased the Rams’ own broadcast of the exchange.
#Rams HC Sean McVay describing what Myles Garrett did at practice today is terrifying:
"Did you see, when we had the slide to him and a chip, and he had six hands on him, and he still found a way to win? That was freaky." 🤯😳
(via @RamsNFL) pic.twitter.com/iKKkYrf6DZ
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) August 7, 2026
Six hands. That’s an offensive tackle sliding protection toward him, plus a tight end or running back chipping on the way to his route — two blockers, sometimes with a third finishing the job — and Garrett still got home. For a coach who spent years scheming around Aaron Donald drawing double and triple teams, that description carries weight.
Garrett’s Camp Has Been a Story of Absence and Return
The moment McVay described comes after a stretch where Garrett wasn’t on the field at all. He missed four straight training camp practices in late July and early August with what the team called lower-body soreness, according to NBC Sports. McVay downplayed it at the time, saying the Rams were “erring on the side of being smart with him” rather than dealing with anything serious.
Garrett returned to practice that Wednesday, and by the team’s ninth day of camp he was back to drawing exactly the kind of attention that made him last season’s Defensive Player of the Year. The Rams acquired him from the Cleveland Browns in a blockbuster trade on June 1, and this camp has functioned as an extended introduction — both to a new scheme and a new locker room.
Echoes of Aaron Donald
McVay’s phrasing — a player facing “six hands” and still winning — is the exact language Rams coaches used to describe blocking for Donald during his prime. Donald routinely saw double and even triple teams and still wrecked pass protections from the interior. Garrett doing something comparable off the edge, even in padless or limited-contact camp reps, is the kind of detail that gets a head coach talking on camera.
The comparison carries extra resonance because Donald himself has been a fixture at Rams camp this month. He held what the team was required to report to the NFL as a formal “tryout” on August 5, per NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk, though a league source cautioned it was for Donald’s own evaluation of how he felt in pads, not a Rams-run evaluation of him. McVay has said he doesn’t expect Donald to make a decision on an unretirement until after the team returns to its Woodland Hills facility. Nothing is confirmed — Donald’s camp has not stated he’s returning, and the Rams have not announced any roster move.
What’s Next for Garrett and the Rams
With training camp winding down, the focus shifts to the preseason. The Rams open exhibition play on the road against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on Aug. 15, followed by home and road preseason games against the New Orleans Saints and Los Angeles Chargers. Star players logging heavy camp reps, including Garrett, are unlikely to see extended preseason snaps as teams manage veteran workloads into the regular season.
The bigger date on the calendar is Sept. 10, when the Rams face the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia, in the NFL’s first regular-season game held in that country. That matchup will be the Rams’ actual season opener and the first true test of what a healthy, featured Garrett looks like in Los Angeles’ defense.
