{"id":1584818,"date":"2024-06-14T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1584818"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:11:37","slug":"chargers-sign-wr-praise-olatoke-a-former-sprinter-at-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/chargers-sign-wr-praise-olatoke-a-former-sprinter-at-ohio-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers Sign WR Praise Olatoke, A Former Sprinter At Ohio State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Chargers have signed wide receiver Praise Olatoke, who was born in Nigeria and raised in Scotland. Olatoke played club football and ran track at Ohio State, earning first-team All-Big Ten honors.<\/p>\n<h2>Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Praise Olatoke is a member of the NFL's International Pathway Program<\/h2>\n<p>Furthermore, Olatoke joins defensive lineman CJ Okoye as the Chargers\u2019 members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/nfl\/\">NFL's<\/a> International Pathway Program (IPP). The Chargers signed Okoye, a native of Nigeria, as a free agent in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The IPP gives international athletes a chance to learn American football and attempt to make an NFL roster. He will not count toward the Chargers\u2019 90-player roster in training camp.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">speeeed<\/p>\n<p>we&#39;ve signed WR praise olatoke \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PAfyXHd40D\">https:\/\/t.co\/PAfyXHd40D<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p9eJSdXEq1\">pic.twitter.com\/p9eJSdXEq1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chargers\/status\/1801661710606209103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a part of the program, Olatoke trained at IMG Academy this spring and attended a pro day in March in which scouts from across the NFL evaluated him and the IPP\u2019s other participants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I've sort of established to myself that this is what I want to do. So, I'm not going to let this opportunity go by me because of ignorance or attitude or character,\u201d Olatoke told Eleven Warriors in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know physically, I can do it. I\u2019m tall enough, fast enough, I\u2019ve got the right makeup. So just marrying those two together gives me confidence that I can do what I say I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Olatoka ran the 100-meter dash in 10.27 seconds in 2022<\/h2>\n<p>If Olatoke makes the team's practice squad, he still won\u2019t count toward the practice squad limit.<\/p>\n<p>At 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds, Olatoka ran the 100-meter dash in just 10.27 seconds in the 2022 Big Ten Outdoor Championships. His only American football experience is at the club level.<\/p>\n<p>However, he has the talent to be an NFL receiver. The Chargers are giving him that opportunity to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>With the Buckeyes, Olatoke caught seven passes for 231 yards and four touchdowns in his lone season with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State club football coach James Grega believes Olatoke is NFL material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always told him, and I know a lot of his teammates had kind of communicated like, \u2018Hey man, if you get the reps, and you figure out the X's and O's part and verbiage and learning the more intimate details of the game, you have NFL-capable qualities in terms of speed, in terms of size,'\u201d Grega told Eleven Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of [the physical ability] is there. It's just a matter of honing in on the game itself. And that's what I told the IPP. It's been really cool to see him take all those steps and put his head down and keep working and get to this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Chargers have signed wide receiver Praise Olatoke, who was born in Nigeria and raised in Scotland. Olatoke played club football and ran track at Ohio State, earning first-team All-Big Ten honors. Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Praise Olatoke is a member of the NFL's International Pathway Program Furthermore, Olatoke joins defensive lineman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":1584819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[447558,9967,447423,447424],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chargers Sign WR Praise Olatoke, A Former Sprinter At Ohio State<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Los Angeles Chargers have signed wide receiver Praise Olatoke, who was born in Nigeria and raised in Scotland. 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