Report: Rams defensive lineman Aaron Donald Says He will never play with Los Angeles Rams again till coach Sean McVay will leave..

NFL free agency is basically in the rear-view mirror, the owners meetings are next week and the draft is only a few weeks away.

No rest for the weary …

• Because he may be the single most-dominant player of the past decade, I don’t mind doubling down on Aaron Donald content (our takeaways led with him, too). And we’ll start by turning the clock back to 2014, when the undersized Pitt defensive tackle was, to some degree, a polarizing prospect among scouts.

Everyone knew he could play. From there, two questions remained. One was whether he’d be a scheme-specific player—needing to be in a system that would get him upfield, and not require him to take on blocks, given his lack of height (6’1″), weight (280 pounds) and length. Another was whether he’d be able to handle the down-to-down rigors of being an NFL defensive lineman.

That debate wasn’t limited to teams that were skeptical. It’s one, according to several people who were there, that was spirited in the Los Angeles Rams’ draft meetings.

Then-coach Jeff Fisher was one who really liked Donald. In those meetings, he used a guy he coached, former Eagles star Jerome Brown, as an example of a shorter, lighter guy who became dominant at the position. Warren Sapp was another guy he raised to emphasize that height and length weren’t the end-all, be-all for defensive linemen.

But it was Ray Agnew, a former first-round defensive lineman who was getting his start in scouting after serving as director of player development and team chaplain, who emerged over that time as the team’s Aaron Donald evangelist. He, college scouting director Brad Holmes (now Lions GM) and senior scout Rich Snead had taken a liking to Donald, and were on Fisher’s side with pushback coming from other corners of the room.

The normally reserved Agnew, I’m told, literally slammed his hands on the table during a Donald debate, insisting that the Pitt prospect was fully capable of being a full-time player in any scheme. And because of his playing experience, and the respect everyone in the building had for Agnew, his emotion on Donald carried real weight.