When Aaron Donald was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in 2014, it was practically like playing for an entirely different organization than what he’s been accustomed to recently. In some ways that is literal, the move to Los Angeles and SoFi Stadium being changes that well-suited football’s best defensive player over the last eight years, but it is also hard to believe how much different the team around him is.
In 2014, Donald played for a team that employed Austin Davis as a starting quarterback, Tre Mason as the starting running back, Jared Cook as the most-targeted receiving weapon, and a slew of defensive talents around him that includes some quality names but all of whom are now gone.