Trent McDuffie never believed he could be teammates with Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald
Six months ago, Trent McDuffie was on the Chiefs, Myles Garrett was on the Browns and Aaron Donald was retired. Now they're three key members of the Rams' defense. playerbros.org
McDuffie was traded to the Rams in March, Garrett was traded to the Rams a couple months later, and Donald just came out of retirement. McDuffie told Andrew Siciliano of NFL Media that he wouldn't believed it was possible for Rams General Manager Les Snead and head coach Sean McVay to bring all three of them onto the same team.
"I probably would’ve said you’re lying, for real," McDuffie said. "There's no way you can get me. There's no way you can get Myles. There's no way you can get A.D. But, hey, hat off to Les. Hat off to Sean. Those guys are masterminds and they did it."
The 25-year-old McDuffie has already been a first-team All-Pro once and won Super Bowl rings twice in his first four NFL seasons -- and he's the least accomplished of the trio: Garrett has been named the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year two of the last three years, while Donald is one of only three players in NFL history to win Defensive Player of the Year three times. Most teams don't add even one player with those kinds of credentials to their defense in an offseason. The Rams added three. McDuffie is still having a hard time believing it's real.
Fin Tarling’s death casts shadow over Tour of Britain as safety fears loom large
Minute’s applause to take place in Lincoln on Wednesday
Spate of serious recent crashes have put safety on agenda
The death of the Welshman Fin Tarling continues to cast a long shadow over professional cycling and nowhere will that absence be felt more deeply than at the men’s Tour of Britain which begins on Wednesday.
Tarling’s former team NSN Cycling, which includes the Olympic medallist Ethan Vernon, also one of his closest friends, will be brought to the start line in Lincoln for the opening 187km stage, for what is expected to be a minute’s applause.
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