This doesn’t confirm any predictive abilities on McVay’s part; when you have Aaron Donald on your defense, making plays is part of the program all the time. And as usual, the NFL’s best defensive player lived up to the reputation. No IDL had more sacks than Donald’s 19, nobody had more quarterback hits than his 15, nobody had more quarterback hurries than his 75 (Chris Jones ranked second with 57), and the fact that Donald also led the league among IDLs with 58 stops tells you all you need to know about the occasional and ridiculous canard that he can’t stop the run. Aaron Donald can do whatever he wants; it’s his world, and the rest of the NFL is just paying homage.

We could pick from all kinds of plays indicating just how dominant Donald is, but there are few better reps than this sack against the Cardinals in Week 14. Donald is lined up angled outside right guard Max Garcia. At the snap, Donald pushes Garcia into quarterback Kyler Murray, who tries to bail out of the damage, but simply falls down and braces for the inevitable.

If you want to know how well Donald plays the run, you can ask Elijah Mitchell of the 49ers, who had to deal with Donald jumping three gaps on a stunt to create a one-yard loss in Week 18.

Donald made some nebulous noise about retirement after he won his first ring, but the Rams wisely put an end to that with a three-year, $95 million contract re-do that makes him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the history of professional football.

Because we are not quarterbacks, running backs, or offensive linemen, we can say that we’re very happy to see more of Aaron Donald over the next few years. It’s not exaggeration or cliché to say that we won’t see his like again for a very long time.