{"id":21989,"date":"2020-02-28T17:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=21989"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:44:46","slug":"nigerian-prince-tega-wanogho-is-now-a-touted-nfl-draft-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-prince-tega-wanogho-is-now-a-touted-nfl-draft-prospect","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Prince Tega Wanogho Is Now a Touted NFL Draft Prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though he won\u2019t be working out at the NFL combine after getting his right knee scoped in late January, Prince Tega Wanogho, a real-deal Nigerian prince, is drawing interest from a number of teams.<\/p>\n<p>Wanogho, who started at left tackle in 12 of Auburn\u2019s 13 games in 2019 and earned second-team All-SEC honors, originally came to the United States as a basketball prospect and thought he was going to be the next LeBron James,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/how-a-nigerian-prince-incredibly-went-from-the-next-le-bron-james-to-touted-nfl-prospect-190645954.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">according to Yahoo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, reality set it and the 6-foot-5, 308-pounder made the switch to playing football after running a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2015\/01\/the_prince_tega_wanogho_jr_sto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">40-yard dash in 4.64 seconds in high top Jordan shoes<\/a>\u00a0during his first day on the field.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/27399933\/the-incredible-journey-auburn-prince-tega-wanogho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">seventh of nine children<\/a>\u00a0from the Nigerian city of Warri, Wanogho had never played football and rarely seen it played on TV before he began taking lining up at both tackle positions in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The son of Prince Philip U.D. and Princess Onome Wanogho, the young man now projects to go in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft to a team that needs help on the offensive line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"29\">\u201cRight now, I can\u2019t do much because of my knee,\u201d Wanogho told Yahoo. \u201cBut at the same time, I feel like \u2026 I\u2019m a sleeper. And I do because at the end of the day, I take pride in whatever I do. As a man, I take pride in that, too. I feel like my name is not being heard enough. But it doesn\u2019t matter to me because at the next level, whatever team actually drafts me, they\u2019re getting a good player. They\u2019re getting a real pass blocker and they\u2019re getting something new.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though he won\u2019t be working out at the NFL combine after getting his right knee scoped in late January, Prince Tega Wanogho, a real-deal Nigerian prince, is drawing interest from a number of teams. 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