Myles Garrett is drawing 78x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Myles Lorenz Garrett is an American professional football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, earning the Bill Willis Trophy and first-team All-American honors after leading the Southeastern Conference in sacks in 2015. The following year, he was named a unanimous All-American. Garrett was selected first overall by the Cleveland Browns in the 2017 NFL draft.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 54 edits to this article on 2026-06-01, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026
• 2025
• Los Angeles Rams
• Professional career

What changed that day

The article grew by 747 characters that day. The largest single addition was 506 characters to Professional career. See everything that changed on 2026-06-01 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.