{"id":826023,"date":"2026-08-26T03:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826023\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:44:10","slug":"with-aaron-donald-undecided-rams-prepping-for-53-player-rosters-with-and-without-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826023\/","title":{"rendered":"With Aaron Donald undecided, Rams prepping for 53-player rosters with and without him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rams open the season in 16 days, and defensive tackle Aaron Donald still has not reached a decision about his return.<\/p>\n<p>Will he or won\u2019t he? <\/p>\n<p>Time is running out.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Sean McVay, who has said he didn\u2019t want to place a deadline on Donald, said the team has plans for a final 53-player roster with Donald and one without Donald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he decides he wants to be able to do it, then the next conversations are: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/08\/25\/rams-myles-garrett-still-sidelined-as-preseason-winds-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">What is your ramp-up<\/a>?\u201d McVay said Tuesday, via Benjamin Royer of the ocregister.com. \u201cWhat does it look like to approach whenever that would be the first time that we think we make the most sense for him to impact and make a positive change with us?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had to have a lot of fluidity and flexibility, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve had to learn over 10 years. But I think what\u2019s good is the thing that has served us well \u2013 and it\u2019s really the truth \u2013 is let\u2019s just stay one day at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Defensive Player of the Year began considering a comeback after the Rams traded for two-time Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett. <\/p>\n<p>Donald has not played in the NFL since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams open the season in 16 days, and defensive tackle Aaron Donald still has not reached a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-826023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}