Myles Garrett kissed Chloe Kim on the 2026 ESPYS red carpet in New York City on Wednesday, July 15, turning a routine awards-show walk into the night’s clearest relationship moment. The appearance also put Garrett’s move from Cleveland to Los Angeles back in view, with the Rams adjustment still part of the story.
2026 ESPYS carpet
Garrett and Kim entered the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center after posing for photographers, with Kim in a dark red gown and Garrett in a white button-up shirt and black dress pants. He even carried a half-eaten green apple. That kind of detail is small, but it signals how publicly the couple chose to show up at a show built on visibility.
On ’s red carpet live stream, hosts told them they looked beautiful, and Garrett answered, “Thank you, she is.” He also said, “It feels amazing. First nomination, I’m hoping it’s a win.” For a player still settling into a new market, the nomination gave the evening a professional frame, not just a social one.
Garrett in Los Angeles
Garrett said, “Hoping I can keep up with her,” then added, “She’s got about five or six on her own, so, I’m hoping to add some to a joint tally, and she keeps shining.” Kim replied, “I’m so excited to present,” and added, “I think handing people awards is just as fun as receiving them, so I’m looking forward to it.” The exchange made the couple’s public dynamic as clear as the red carpet itself.
The move from Cleveland to Los Angeles is still landing for Garrett. He said he was living “right in the middle of L.A. proper,” described the change as “entirely different,” and said the Rams had been “very welcoming” so far. He also called it “A lot of unpacking,” and said, “Moving into a new house, a new place, its very foreign to me,” while adding that he was still “getting adjusted to the team and new teammates.”
Five or six awards
Kim’s answer to his one-upmanship is the part that gives this story more than a carpet clip. Garrett said she has “about five or six” awards of her own, which means his push to build a “joint tally” sits next to a partner with real hardware already in hand. That keeps the moment from reading like a one-off public display and instead places it inside a relationship that has been building across several appearances.
The timeline runs through May 2025, when they were first romantically linked after attending the Crunchyroll Anime Awards together in Japan. In August 2025, Kim visited Garrett at training camp and shared videos through her Instagram Stories. By November 2025, she was supporting him as the Browns played the Las Vegas Raiders, and in February 2026 Garrett traveled to Italy to cheer on Kim at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The public kiss at the 2026 ESPYS in New York City now reads as the most visible checkpoint in that sequence. If Garrett keeps collecting nominations in Los Angeles, the next visible test is whether his football life catches up to the relationship already being treated, in public, like part of the same scorecard.
