All along, Aaron Donald‘s retirement talk felt like a negotiating ploy.
That the end result of his chatter was a $95 million contract restructure with $40 million in additional salary over the same time frame and more guaranteed money than Matthew Stafford suggests that it was. If it was a ploy, it turns out that he was playing hardball.
Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Donald’s agent filed a retirement letter with the Rams on May 9, four weeks before Donald and the Rams reached agreement on…
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