{"id":114037,"date":"2025-06-08T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/114037\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:37:12","slug":"jared-verse-challenging-aaron-donald-to-a-workout-went-exactly-how-you-would-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/114037\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Verse challenging Aaron Donald to a workout went exactly how you would expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Donald was one of the most dominant defensive players the NFL has ever seen over his 10-year career for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, recognized for intense training regimens that made his opponents look like light-work come Sundays (<a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2018\/04\/01\/nfl-rams-aaron-donald-is-training-with-knives-for-some-reason\/81775714007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:remember the knives??;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">remember the knives??<\/a> &#8212; who cares if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/video\/donald-trains-with-knives-20504110\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:they were fake;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">they were fake<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Just two years removed from his early retirement as a three-time Defensive Player of the Year and eight-time All-Pro, the now 34-year-old Donald is still someone to tread lightly with when it comes to any kind of physical contest.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rams 2024 Defensive Rookie of the Year Jared Verse recently learned that the hard way after challenging Donald to a workout.<\/p>\n<p>This went exactly how you might expect. By the end of the video shared to social media by the NFL, Verse looked exhausted while Donald was still doing pushups. &#8220;You feel the difference?&#8221; Donald asked. &#8220;I feel it,&#8221; Verse responded.<\/p>\n<p>Big credit to Verse for having the heart to even challenge Donald and then actually showing up for the workout. This will only make him a better player and the Rams a better team.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/06\/08\/aaron-donald-jared-verse-workout-challenge\/84102685007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jared Verse challenging Aaron Donald to a workout went as expected;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jared Verse challenging Aaron Donald to a workout went as expected<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Donald was one of the most dominant defensive players the NFL has ever seen over his 10-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[4094,7,3417,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-114037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-aaron-donald","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jared-verse","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangelesrams","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114648727254307477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}