Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald announces retirement

Together with these 111 career sacks, he moreover amassed 790 pressures, 543 full tackles (176 for loss), 256 QB hits, 24 compelled fumbles and 21 passes defensed all through 154 career video video games (150 begins). Donald moreover appeared in 11 playoff video video games, along with two Great Bowls, and notched 34 tackles (19 solo), 6.0 sacks, 10 tackles for loss, 51 pressures, 16 quarterback hits, 34 hurries and one go defended.

“The good players in our league elevate the people spherical them and Aaron has modeled one of the best ways for our workforce as long as I’ve been with the Rams,” head coach Sean McVay said. “He’s an elite competitor, any individual who leads by occasion in a way that’s real to him, and an distinctive teammate who conjures up everyone spherical him to be probably the greatest mannequin of themselves. As good of a participant he is, he is an efficient greater particular person. He is truly one amongst one and epitomizes all of the items that’s correct about sports activities actions. I am going to ceaselessly cherish the recollections we’ve made and may on a regular basis be glad about how he poured all of the items into this sport and into our workforce. He’s meant slightly lots to me personally and to my family.”

“There’ll in no way be one different Aaron Donald,” primary supervisor Les Snead said.