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Prospect matchups: How Myles Garrett fared against UCLA OT Conor McDermott

COLLEGE STATION, TX - OCTOBER 08: Myles Garrett #15 of the Texas A&M Aggies waits near the bench in the second half of their game against the Tennessee Volunteers at Kyle Field on October 8, 2016 in College Station, Texas. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

With the 2017 NFL Combine well in the rearview mirror and the focus now on cross-examining every facet of play for hundreds of draft-eligible players, the Pro Football Focus team has put together a list of some of the more intriguing prospect matchups from the 2016 season — one-on-one meetings that featured players who are surely going to hear their name called come April.

Whether it was a quarterback targeting a cornerback or an edge defender blowing past an offensive tackle, some 2016 games pitted top players against one another in a preview of how they may fare against next-level talent. We’ve been revealing these matchups one at a time over the past few days.

Here are some of the matchups we’ve broken down thus far:

Today we take a look at former Texas A&M edge defender Myles Garrett versus UCLA's Conor McDermott, the No. 6 player on PFF's OT draft board.

Garrett torched McDermott for six QB hurries, four QB hits, and a sack in the pair's 2016 meeting. The former Aggie—PFF’s top-ranked prospect—accumulated a season-high 11 total QB pressures, third-most of his career for a single game, and the most since Week 10 of his freshman year in 2014 against UL Monroe.

Myles Garrett’s best career games
Opponent / Week / Season QB hits QB hurries QB sacks Total
UL Monroe / 10 / 2014 0 11 3 14
Lamar / 2 / 2014 0 10 3 13
UCLA / 1 / 2016 4 6 1 11
Arizona St. / 1 / 2015 2 2 5 9

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