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Aaron Donald Wields Helmets in Rams-Bengals Brawl

Aaron Donald was at the center of a full-team fight between the Rams and Bengals.

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PITTSBURGH -- Super Bowl LVII has left some lingering tensions between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams. At the tail end of a day of joint practices with the two teams outside Paycor Stadium, a full-team brawl broke out with Aaron Donald at the center.

Donald appears to have ripped the helmets off of two Bengals and swung them at opposing players the middle of the scrum. He was thrown away from the middle of the brawl but only after he got a couple of swings in.

Bengals head coach Zac Taylor downplayed the incident and dismissed it as natural tension that comes when two teams meet on the same field for preseason practices.

"Just got a little scuffling," Taylor said following practice. "So we just called [practice]. We were at the end of the period anyway. ... Emotions run high. Just two competitive guys getting into it."

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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. 

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