Sean McVay, Aaron Donald seem to give indication on NFL future during victory parade

Questions surround Sean McVay and Aaron Donald’s futures with the Los Angeles Rams. But they might’ve given an idea of what’s next during Wednesday’s Super Bowl parade.

The Rams held the celebration after defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 on Sunday at SoFi Stadium. Rumors are running rampant about whether or not McVay and Donald will retire after the victory.

Based on their comments on Wednesday, those might just end up being rumors.

“Run it back! Run it back!” McVay chanted five times.

“We built a super team,” Donald said, via NFL.com’s Nick Shook. “We can bring the super team back. Why not run it back? We can be world champs again.”

McVay, 36, just wrapped up his fifth season as Rams head coach and is coming off his first Super Bowl title. During his time as head coach, he’s totaled a 55-26 record and appeared in two Super Bowls.

Donald, an eight-year NFL veteran, cemented himself as the best defensive player in the NFL this year. An eight-time Pro Bowler and seven-time All-Pro nominee, ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio suggested Donald, 30, could retire if the Rams won the Super Bowl. He sure doesn’t sound ready to hang it up just yet.

Report: ESPN ready to pursue Rams’ Sean McVay

The Los Angeles Rams are just days removed from winning Super Bowl LVI, and they’re still celebrating the big win. While Rams coach Sean McVay is part of that celebration, there’s a chance he could make a career change.

According to a report from the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, if McVay – who said last week that he didn’t want to spend his whole life as an NFL coach because he wanted to start a family – chooses to walk away from coaching, ESPN will pursue him to join the network’s Monday Night Football broadcast team.

Marchand reports that McVay “would likely be able to command a salary of more than $10 million per year,” and added that he could potentially have additional broadcasting opportunities with networks such as Fox and Amazon. If McVay did in fact receive a broadcasting salary of $10 million-plus per year, he’d be making more than his current coaching pay of $8.5 million.

As Marchand points out, this wouldn’t be the first time that McVay has been pursued by ESPN, as the network reportedly had conversations with the Rams’ head man in 2020 about joining Monday Night Football. He also mentions that McVay could try out a broadcasting career and still potentially return to the NFL at some point.