Adetokunbo Ogundeji (born October 9, 1998) is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

outside linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, ...

for the

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of the

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(NFL). He played

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at Notre Dame.

Early life and high school

Ogundeji grew up in

West Bloomfield, Michigan West Bloomfield Township, officially the Charter Township of West Bloomfield, is a charter township in Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan, within the Detroit metropolitan area. It is one of the most expensive ...

. He did not play football until his freshman year at

Walled Lake Central High School Walled Lake Central High School is a public high school of the Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, located in Commerce Township, Michigan in Metro Detroit. It serves portions of the township, Wolverine Lake, a small portion of the City of Walle ...

. He originally committed to play at Western Michigan. As a junior, he had 68 tackles, nine sacks, 17 pass breakups and four fumble recoveries and ultimately de-committed from Western Michigan after being more heavily recruited. Ogundeji ultimately signed to play at Notre Dame. His senior season was cut short due to a knee injury.

College career

Ogundeji spent his freshman season on the scout team and did not appear in any games and played sparingly as a sophomore. He started to receive significant playing time in his junior season and finished the year with 25 total tackles, three tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and two forced fumbles. As a senior, Ogundeji had 34 tackles, seven tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery after playing in all 13 of the Fighting Irish's games. Ogundeji opted to return for a fifth season after his senior year. He had seven sacks in his final season.

Statistics

Professional career

Ogundeji was selected by the

in the fifth round with the 182nd overall pick of the

2021 NFL Draft The 2021 NFL Draft was the 86th National Football League Draft, the annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players for the 2021 NFL season. The draft was held in Cleveland from April 29 to May 1, 2021 ...

. He signed his four-year rookie contract with Atlanta on June 15, 2021.

NFL career statistics

References

External links

Notre Dame Fighting Irish bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ogundeji, Adetokunbo Living people Players of American football from Michigan Sportspeople from Oakland County, Michigan American football defensive ends Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players People from West Bloomfield, Michigan American sportspeople of Nigerian descent 1998 births Atlanta Falcons players