“Philly. I hated playing against Philly,” Aaron Donald said on Green Light with Chris Long. “Kelce, his little fast a** always ran full — he would snap the ball and run over right now and just, I’m like, ‘bro, you got some good guards, let them work. You don’t gotta help them every time.’ He’s like, ‘I’m not letting you — we’re gonna let you ruin the game.’ I’m like, every single play now. Every time I play the Eagles bro, I really never really got no one-on-ones. I probably had like one or two during a game and that would be it. If you don’t win that one-on-one that time you’re done. You’re gonna get doubled and triple-teamed for the rest of the game.”
It is interesting to hear Donald’s perspective on playing against the Eagles. After he announced his retirement, Jason Kelce made it clear on his podcast that the Eagles would always plan on either double or triple-teaming him, even if it meant other pass rushers got chances. This came after there was much discussion about Donald never recording a sack against the Eagles. It was Kelce making it clear that Donald still made a profound impact on the game, despite not recording a sack against Philadelphia.
Kelce also announced his retirement this offseason, and based on the comments from him and Donald, it is clear that the two have a great amount of respect for each other. Both are sure-fire hall of famers.
Aaron Donald and Jason Kelce could go to Canton together
Kelce spent 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, made the Pro Bowl seven times, and made First-Team Six times, All-Pro. In 2017, he contributed to the Eagles’ historic first-ever Super Bowl victory. In the 2022 campaign, he also came very close to taking home a second one. With that resume, Canton should be able to hire him.
There’s no denying that Donald will be among the first players elected to the Hall of Fame. In all ten of his Rams seasons, he was selected to the Pro Bowl, eight times he was named to the All-Pro team, three times he was named Defensive Player of the Year, and in 2021, he won a Super Bowl. The sack of Joe Burrow on 4th-and-1, which sealed the Rams’ Super Bowl triumph, is probably his most iconic play.
