
When Myles Garrett broke the NFL's single-season sack record on Sunday, the pride of his fellow Browns was immediately clear. In fact, his teammates were so fired up for the 30-year-old defensive end, who notched 23 sacks in the 2025 campaign, that one of them hilariously high-fived a referee.
Indeed, shortly after Garrett took down Bengals QB Joe Burrow in the fourth quarter, defensive tackle Shelby Harris lifted his arms and did not hesitate as he found the waiting palm of an official, who was definitely just signaling and not celebrating. But even so, Harris made him an unwitting piece of the team's revelry. Too good.
Take a look at that below:
MYLES GARRETT IS THE NEW SINGLE SEASON SACK KING đ
â Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 4, 2026
(via @NFL)
pic.twitter.com/8KV4YlDHVT https://t.co/HQIBycc5Sx
While it may have been overshadowed in the moment, the interaction did not go unnoticed among fans online:
Shelby Harris high-fiving the ref after Myles set the record got me đ pic.twitter.com/h49sYZs0lZ
â McNeil (@REFLOG18) January 4, 2026
93 high-fiving the ref got me weak https://t.co/1NildXW1Wf
â Josh Hart (@joshhart) January 4, 2026
No. 93 Shelby Harris high-fiving the ref 𤣠pic.twitter.com/xs3oPhVaml
â Nolan King (@mma_kings) January 4, 2026
My favorite part of Myles Garrett setting the single-season sacks record was @ShelbyHarris93 high-fiving the referee as he signaled the play over. TOO GOOD!pic.twitter.com/zPnp1G6oIa
â Isaac Schade (@isaacschade) January 4, 2026
But not everyone was happy with how the celebration played out. Speaking after the game, Bengals coach Zac Taylor expressed some annoyance that the contest was stopped in honor of Garrett's achievement.
"Thereâs five minutes left in our season. Weâre playing for our lives here, and I was never told that weâre gonna stop the game in a critical moment like that,â the coach told reporters. âThe refs just said that they made a decision that they were gonna stop the game. They said they tried to do it as quickly as possible. I didnât feel that. We didnât sub. Weâre trying to be on the ball and go and play with tempo, and the umpire just held the ball so that we couldnât do anything."
Fair enough, but it's also not like the Bengals or Browns had anything big to play for, besides draft positioning. Plus, the only thing anyone will remember about that game anyway is how Garrett broke the record.
Happy for him, happy for his dad's big camera, and happy for the Browns for ending the year with a win.
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