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Pitt Legend Earns Another NFL All-Pro Selection

Former Pitt Panthers defensive tackle Aaron Donald is still one of the elite players in the NFL.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Legend Earns Another NFL All-Pro Selection
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PITTSBURGH -- It was only a momentary absence from the NFL's All-Pro First-Team for former Pitt Panthers defensive tackle Aaron Donald. 

After missing 11 games due to injury in 2022-23, Pitt legend Aaron Donald was back on the Associated Press' 2023-24 All Pro First-Team, his eighth selection to this elite group of players in 10 seasons as a professional for Donald. 

Donald sat out the regular season finale with the Rams having already locked up a playoff spot, but still amassed 53 tackles, 16 for a loss, eight sacks and three passes defended in 16 appearances, all while consistently drawing double and triple teams as one of the sport's biggest game-wreckers. 

Donald also earned a Pro Bowl nod for his efforts this season, a historic 10 selection. He's the first defensive lineman since 1970 to make the Pro Bowl in each of his first 10 seasons as an NFL player and his decade's worth of Pro Bowl selections are second in Pitt history only to wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who amassed 11 during his storied career with the Arizona Cardinals.

He was the only former Pitt player to make the Pro Bowl or either the first or second All-Pro teams this season. 

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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