Aaron Donald pointed to his ring finger after making the play that sealed a Super Bowl win for the Rams.

Will his next hand gesture be a wave goodbye to the NFL, with so much greatness still left in his tank?

With reports swirling about a possible early retirement, Donald was the best player on the field Sunday in the second half of Super Bowl LVI, so it was fitting that he wrapped up Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow by the waist and forced the incompletion that clinched the Rams’ 23-20 comeback victory.

“I’m just in the moment,” Donald said when asked about retirement, surrounded by his children, at the postgame interview podium. “I promised my [8-year-old] daughter when she was 5 years old that she could play in the confetti. She got to do that today. I’m going to enjoy this with my teammates and my family for a few days.”

For two weeks, the Rams’ team-wide rallying cry was win one for Donald “to create more mystique to his legacy,” as defensive coordinator Raheem Morris put it. It was curious given that Donald, 30, is three years younger than quarterback Matthew Stafford, who had never won a playoff game before his trade from the Lions to the Rams.

But the reason became clear just hours before kickoff, when NBC analyst and former Pro Bowl safety Rodney Harrison reported that Donald — an eight-time Pro Bowler, seven-time All-Pro, three-time Defensive Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year — was entertaining thoughts of a John Elway- or Michael Strahan-like exit on top. Only with the additional Barry Sanders too-soon shock value.

“Legacies are built not from individual stats but from team success,” Donald said. “To finally get the opportunity to feel this, it’s hard to put into words.”

If it was Donald’s final game, it was a masterpiece worthy of his first-ballot Hall of Fame résumé. He finished with four tackles and two sacks and showed on back-to-back plays in the final minute why he is considered the best non-quarterback in the NFL.

“You’ve got to be relentless,” Donald said. “If you want something bad enough, you have to go get it.”

The Bengals needed only to drive about 40 yards in 85 seconds to set up their unflappable kicker to tie the game, but it was Donald who sprinted on the field first for that final series. It was Donald who flapped his arms at the crowd, imploring Rams fans to use the home-field advantage. It was Donald who head coach Sean McVay predicted would close the game out as soon as he saw the Bengals line up in the shotgun formation on a fourth-and-1.

“He’s the effin’ man,” McVay said.

He’s also the total package.

Need a run-stuffing defensive tackle? On third-and-1 just across midfield, Donald pushed back his blocker and pulled rusher Samaje Perine backwards instead of allowing him to fall forward for the first down.

Need a pass rusher? On fourth-and-1, Donald pressured Burrow within 2.2 seconds of the snap, according to NextGenStats, and spun him around into an incompletion. He immediately began to celebrate as the rest of the NFL thought back to this quote from this past week.

“I surpassed anything I ever thought I wanted to do,” Donald said. “I would’ve never thought in a million years full circle that I’d be sitting here with the amount of success I’ve had in a short amount of time in this league.”

There’s nothing left to accomplish now.