Aaron Donald is “at peace” with his career if he doesn’t get a new deal

Aaron Donald has done it all. He has three defesnive player of the year awards, eight Pro Bowls, seven All-Pros, an All-Decade honor, 98 career sacks and now a Super Bowl ring.

The Rams defensive lineman has joined Lawrence Taylor in the conversation for the greatest defensive player in history, and he will enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame five years after his retirement.

Donald just turned 31, but he said he could walk away after eight seasons without playing another down and be satisfied.

While appearing on Brandon Marshall’s “I Am Athlete” podcast, Donald said four times he is “at peace” with his career.

Donald is not participating in the team’s voluntary organized team activities as he seeks a new contract, having outplayed the six-year, $125 million deal he signed in 2018.

“It ain’t about the money, but it’s a business at the end of the day,” Donald said. “That’s what you’ve got to see For me, it’s about winning. I don’t want to play football if I can’t win anyway, so I feel like if I got a real opportunity to win another Super Bowl, then it makes sense to play. But again, it’s still a business. We’ve got to handle the business side of things, and if that wasn’t to get handled then, you know, it is what it is type of situation. I’ll be fine regardless.

“But me talking about retirement, that was happening way before we won a Super Bowl. I’ve been saying that since I got into the league that I was going to play eight years and be done. That’s just what I’ve been saying. It just came out and then everybody think that, ‘oh, he said if he wins a Super Bowl he’s going to retire.’ Nah, I got teammates, coaches, my family who know about this. I said I’m going to play eight years, and I’m going to probably be done