LA Rams reject ‘somewhat enticing’ offer for 2014 Aaron Donald pick

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What if the Rams had never selected Aaron Donald with the 13th pick in the 2014 NFL draft? It’s not a scenario any fan wants to imagine, but there is an alternate universe where St. Louis is the player who will quickly become an all-world pass rusher in the NFL.

Brad Holmes, who is the Rams director of college scouting, revealed on The Season with Peter Schrager that the St. Louis received a strong offer for the 13th pick in the draft that year. Thankfully, the Rams vehemently denied it, but if they had made the deal, they probably wouldn’t have gotten the future Hall of Famer assuming the team that wanted to move up was targeting Donald.

The sights are set on Aaron Donald, Holmes said of the Rams’ No. 1 target. 13 overall. And I’ll never forget that we got to that pick and a team called and they made an enticing trade offer. And I remember Jeff (Fisher) and Les (Snead) were like, No way. We chose this man and that’s it.

Snead and Fisher clearly liked Donald, as did Holmes especially after seeing him work out and prepare before the draft. But it was Ray Agnew, former assistant general manager of the Rams, who really beat the table for Donald.

And Ill never forget in that draft meeting, our assistant general manager, Ray Agnew, he was the one that really liked in that draft meeting leading up to that draft, because a lot of people said because of his size, he would go. be a sub-rush, specialized package nickel-sub-rush guy, Holmes recalled. And I’ll never forget, Ray Agnew was like, No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hes every-down. It has no specialty. And he said it with more passion.

The NFL is full of what-ifs, but luckily, we don’t have to worry about this one with the Rams. They stood up and took Donald to No. 13, which is one of the best picks in franchise history.

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