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Emmanuel Ogbah: ‘Nobody Had To Teach Me About Hard Work’

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Emmanuel Ogbah recently took to blogging. Stay in your lane, Emmanuel, you don’t see me doing broad jumps and hitting the bench press, do you? No, I’m kidding, his post on the Players’ Tribune was terrific.[1. Side note: I bet Jeets regrets naming his site something that has an apostrophe at the end of it. It’s confusing. Actually 10-1 Jeets doesn’t even know he has this site.] Ogbah talked a lot about his work ethic and why a team should draft him.

[My dad] started over at the bottom, earned his degree and got a job as a technician for an oil company. In doing so, he gave my brother, my sisters and I the very thing he sought when he brought us to this country: the opportunity for a better life. And he did it with pure grit and determination. So nobody had to teach me about hard work, discipline and humility. I saw them firsthand. My father never took a vacation. Every day, he was working.

Ogbah went on to say he felt like the Kansas State game from last year was his best even though he only had one sack. But boy was it a doozy.

https://vine.co/v/iOWu5uYpWnX

And finally on what he did to prep for the combine.

I went down to Florida and worked with one of the best speed coaches in the country. I got gritty. I got prepared. And come combine day, I showed out. I put up the second-best 40 time among defensive linemen, along with the third-best broad jump and vertical jump. Because I was prepared. Because I was challenged to do so.

Good stuff from one of the best to ever play defense at OSU. His draft status has seemingly remained unchanged though: Late first round to second. Here’s where four different publications have him.

CBS: Carolina (No. 30)
ESPN: Carolina (No. 30)
NFL: N/A
Sports Illustrated: N/A

How good would he be on Carolina, by the way? The NFL Draft is April 28-30.

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