Aaron Donald proved in Super Bowl 56 that he is indeed one of the best players in the NFL today. The Los Angeles Rams superstar took his game to another level in crunch time as he led his team to a championship-clinching win in what was easily the most important game of his entire career.

Talk about being clutch.

As it turns out, however, there was one particular moment that poked the bear, so to speak. Donald himself has now spoken about the incident wherein a couple of Bengals players started getting in his face on the sidelines after the Rams tackle shoved Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow out of bounds on a clean play:

“Actually, Burrow was the one, he looked at me, like, ‘Hey Aaron, that was a clean play.’ The quarterback told me that,” Donald said, via PFT. “I feel everybody start pushing me, hitting me. I almost lost it. The refs were like, Aaron, get out of here. They [the Bengals] already got me mad. Now they want to push on me, say all these words to me.

“You just woke me up. You just woke me up!”

Aaron Donald is one of the most highly-motivated players out there and it's not as if he needed an extra push from his opponents in the most important game of the season. However, this is exactly what the Bengals offensive line gave him when they almost violently confronted him after his hit on their quarterback.

Based on what we saw from Donald after this incident — including that unforgettable game-winning pressure on Burrow — it seems like Cincinnati made a major mistake by waking up the beast inside Donald.