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Rams' Aaron Donald Jokes About Playing DT: 'I Ate My Way Out' of RB Position

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There is not a human alive who would ever say Aaron Donald is in bad shape. That said, the Los Angeles Rams star joked Thursday that his love of grub ended his chances of being an NFL running back.

"I mean I grew up playing you know like middle linebacker since Little League, so growing up I always thought I would play running back you know," Donald said on PFT Live on Thursday. "But I ate my way out of that position, so you know I started playing defensive line probably around 12 or 13 and just been stuck there ever since.