{"id":79556,"date":"2025-05-26T05:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79556\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T05:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:15:12","slug":"rams-legend-aaron-donalds-best-plays-from-his-historic-nfl-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79556\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams legend Aaron Donald&#8217;s best plays from his historic NFL career"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Donald made the decision to retire from the NFL in 2024, leaving the game of football as one of the greatest players in league history. He put together a Hall of Fame career with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rams<\/a>, recording 543 tackles, 111 sacks, 176 tackles for a loss and 260 quarterback hits in 10 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Donald turned 34 years old on Friday and based on all the workout videos he\u2019s posted, there\u2019s no doubt he could still rack up double-digit sacks in the NFL right now. Unfortunately, we won\u2019t be seeing him on the field again so instead, the next-best thing is watching highlights from his career.<\/p>\n<p>What better way to celebrate his birthday?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a career highlight reel for the Rams legend.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to the GOAT and future Hall of Famer. Only four more years until he&#8217;s slipping on a gold jacket and giving a speech in Canton.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Rams Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheRamsWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Ramswire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@ramswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>\u00a0for more coverage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Donald made the decision to retire from the NFL in 2024, leaving the game of football as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[1635,4094,247,265,240,1547,1368,7,1367,239,1014,58,2444,2611,248,267,88,6,152,245,537,530,1259,1371,424,1602,1982,9,266,1980],"class_list":{"0":"post-79556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-aaron","9":"tag-aaron-donald","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-angeles","13":"tag-donald","14":"tag-fame","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-hall","17":"tag-los","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-rams","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesrams","22":"tag-national","23":"tag-national-sports","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-positive","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-pro","31":"tag-pro-football-hall-of-fame","32":"tag-rams","33":"tag-smg","34":"tag-smg-timely","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-news","37":"tag-timely"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114572435501175792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556","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=79556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}