Six years after Aaron Hernandez was convicted of killing Odin Lloyd, Rob Gronkowski said he was shocked when he ‘heard everything about it.’. Four years after Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in his jail cell, his former New England Patriots teammate Rob Gronkowski has spoken for the first time on Aaron’s murder conviction. “Aaron was a great player. He was a great football player,” Rob, 31, said during the March 17 episode of 10 Questions with Kyle Brandt podcast. “But, I mean, I get questions like that all the time about him and everything. And with everything going on, I was definitely shook when I heard that, when I heard everything about it.”