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Myles Garrett will not pull an Eli Manning.

When Garrett, the Texas A&M pass rusher viewed by many as the top prospect in this year’s draft, said that he was hoping the Cowboys would trade up and draft him, some took it as a sign that he didn’t want to play in Cleveland and might even try to force his way out, as Manning did when the Chargers took him with the first overall pick in the 2004 NFL draft.

But Garrett later told Mark Berman of KRIV that he would “definitely” play for the Browns if they take him first overall. Garrett said that when he talked about preferring a warm climate and wanted to win, people misconstrued that as a knock on Cleveland.

“People might say they’re this, they’re that, or I made a comment about cold weather and they kind of pointed toward Cleveland,” Garrett said. “That doesn’t matter to me. I’ll play where ever they put me. And that’s the mindset. You go in with a mindset that you’re going to turn things around, you can make that contagious, and people start to believe in it, you can turn into a winning program where ever you go.”

Garrett appears to be the favorite to go first overall. And he appears to be happy with that.