A week ago, the NFL world was shocked when the stellar defensive tackle for the champion Los Angeles Rams, Aaron Donald, was shown on video with a pair of Cincinnati Bengals helmets hitting opposing players during a pitched battle in a joint practice between the two Super Bowl LVI teams prior to their Week 3 preseason showdown.
Next week, Donald, who has not been penalized for the incident, and the Rams will begin the defense of their championship when they face the Buffalo Bills, who are one of the teams favored to take that throne from them, during the NFL Kickoff at SoFi Stadium.
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What are Aaron Donald’s priorities?
In the midst of those two events, the man who was for his peers the second best player in the NFL in the voting released last weekend, behind Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, spoke for the first time about these two topics, making it very clear where his focus is.
“It was just a practice,” Donald said. “It was football. I don’t really wanna go back to nothing negative that happened and talk about something that happened in a practice. My main focus is Buffalo.”
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It should be recalled that after the incident, several NFL specialists linked this case to that of Myles Garrett, who in 2019 hit Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph‘s head with a helmet during a regular-season game, receiving an indefinite suspension that ended up being six games.
However, unlike that case, this one occurred during a practice, so it is not the NFL who is in charge of penalizing such acts, but the teams themselves, and at this point it seems very unlikely that the Rams will take action against their star player.
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In fact, Donald added that he has already spoken with his head coach Sean McVay and that both are on the same page of focusing on the game against the Bills, where it appears that both will be present.
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