Aaron Donald RETURNS! NFL Roster Cuts, Preseason Takeaways, QB Battles & More

Yes, they are, and the butterflies just keep getting flying around faster and faster, especially for that opener, Femi, because I've always said if you have a fatal flaw on your team, offensively or defensively, it tends to rear its head in the opener.

So there is a lot of anxiety here.

probably the toughest weekend general managers and personnel people and coaches have because you know you're bringing in some 37 players uh that you're releasing although you know you're probably trying to bring back almost a little bit less than half of them so

Yeah.

Teams are now down to the 53-man rosters.

Sometimes we always say final cuts.

It's like the 53-man roster is never final.

It's always fluid, I guess, is the way to look at things.

But we are down to the 53-man rosters.

Practice squads are starting to get finalized.

But the biggest news came Sunday afternoon, Marty, where we knew this was happening.

It was always a matter of when, not if.

But he's back.

Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald officially comes out of retirement to join the team.

35 years old, signed a one-year $20 million deal with playoff incentives that could raise that total to $30 million, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

But what do you make of this, dude? I mean, we all thought it was coming.

We talked about it last week when we did our NFC West division preview that Donald was going to come back.

But now that he's here, now that you see him on the practice field like we saw yesterday, it's pretty surreal nonetheless.

You know, we talk about general manager trees, you know, scouts that work for him that go on to be GMs.

We talk about head coaching trees, the people that have worked under them that move on.

I call this the Tom Brady tree because ever since Tom Brady came back and won a Super Bowl at 43, you got to be sitting there.

Aaron Donald's got to be sitting back there saying, I can join this team at 35 and get a ring, get another ring.

I mean, why wouldn't you? And this has been the worst kept secret, as you said, for a month.

The only question was how they were going to do it.

And they actually did fool me on this one, Femi, because I thought because he was a vested veteran, and if vested veterans are on your 53 roster for the first time, um regular season game their contracts are guaranteed for the entire season so i didn't know where they're gonna wait till after the first game to to do that and give him some uh a few more days to get ready and play at home against the giants in their home opener but obviously They're bringing him to Australia with him, and he's going to play.