With the St. Louis Rams, 2014. Photo: Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive line, Pittsburgh, 2010–⁠13

Aaron Donald

Lettered 2010–⁠11 (school media guide)

Number: No. 97
Height: 6′0″
Weight: 285 lb
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Born: May 23, 1991, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Aaron Donald played defensive line at Pittsburgh (2010–⁠13). He won the 2013 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, the 2013 Chuck Bednarik Award, the 2013 Lombardi Award and the 2013 Outland Trophy. He was a consensus All‑American in 2013. The St. Louis Rams took Donald in the first round, No. 13 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2026.

Best season: 2013; Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Chuck Bednarik Award and 5 more
Drafted: No. 13; Overall, 2014 NFL Draft (St. Louis Rams)

Honors

Team titles: Big East champions, 2010

All-America: consensus 2013; Scout.com second team 2011

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

The teams

No defensive lines in our box scores: before 2016 they record only interceptions for defenders. His defense from other sources is below.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Sacks	PBU	FF	Hur
2010	9	8	3	11	3	2	2	0	5
2011	13	22	25	47	16	11	4	1	11
2012	12	42	22	64	18.5	5.5	2	1	11
2013^N	13	43	16	59	28.5	11	3	4	–
On file		115	66	181	66	29.5	11	6	–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht	Wt
2010	Pittsburgh	97	DL
2011	Pittsburgh	97	DL
2012	Pittsburgh	97	DL
2013	Pittsburgh	97	DL	6′0″	285

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Before the draft

Played in the 2014 Senior Bowl (North team, lost 10–⁠20).

Drill	Combine 2014
Height	6′0¾″
Weight	285 lb
Arm length	32⅝″
Hand size	9⅞″
Wingspan	77⅝″^W
40-yard dash	4.68 s
10-yard split	1.63 s^W
Vertical jump	32″
Broad jump	9′8″
Bench press	35 reps
3-cone drill	7.11 s
20-yard shuttle	4.39 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

11 seasons, 155 games with a stat; latest team: Los Angeles Rams.

Pro Bowls: 10 (2014–⁠23) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 8 (2015–⁠21, 2023)

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2015–⁠21, 2023; Pro Football Writers first team 2015–⁠21, 2023; Sporting News first team 2015–⁠23.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks
2014	St. Louis Rams	16	45	9
2015	St. Louis Rams	16	66	11
2016	Los Angeles Rams	16	44	8
2017	Los Angeles Rams	14	39	11
2018	Los Angeles Rams	16	53	20.5
2019	Los Angeles Rams	16	44	12.5
2020	Los Angeles Rams	15	44	13.5
2021	Los Angeles Rams	17	76	12.5
2022	Los Angeles Rams	11	41	5
2023	Los Angeles Rams	16	48	8
2026 (so far)	Los Angeles Rams	2	4	0
NFL career		155	504	111

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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