HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. -- As the Los Angeles Rams began to plan for life without Aaron Donald, one thing quickly became clear for general manager Les Snead.
"You're not going to replace Aaron Donald," Snead said at the league meetings in March. "Especially with one person. So, through this whole process, even as we went through the new defensive coordinator hire, it was talking through being able to play defense without someone who changes the math quite like him. That was our intent.
"That's always been the blueprint three years ago when you were like, when Aaron retires, there's not going to be another one of him.