Overview

• Verse earned the invitation after publicly challenging Aaron Donald on a June podcast and endured a 90-minute “old man retirement workout” featuring four cardio circuits and an upper-body session.
• He described the regimen as “psychotic” and joked that Donald’s wife should call the police to rescue him from its intensity.
• Throughout the workout, Donald drilled the importance of fourth-quarter toughness—a lesson Verse now cites as central to his pursuit of consistent elite performance.
• In late-July training camp, Verse has applied those standards by pacing his effort, emphasizing endurance in drills over bursts of speed.
• Rams coaches credit Verse’s readiness to be coached hard and his relentless energy for helping shape the defense’s culture at the start of his second season.