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91 Amobi Okoye - Biography
HEIGHT: 6-2
WEIGHT: 296
COLLEGE: Louisville
NFL EXP: 3rd season
| Career Statistics | ||||||||||||
| Year | Team | G | GS | tckls | solo | ast | sacks | int | yds | avg | lg | td |
| 2007 | HOU | 16 | 14 | 32 | 23 | 9 | 5.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | HOU | 13 | 12 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | HOU | 9 | 0 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 38 | 26 | 77 | 51 | 26 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
HONORS: NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month (September 2007). CAREER: Young, quick and intelligent defensive linemen who will look to improve upon an injury-riddled sophomore campaign…is already tied for 10th in team history with 6.5 career sacks…has registered 56 career tackles (38 solo) to go along with two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries…owns the team rookie sack record with 5.5 in 2007. 2007 (Houston 16/14): Saw action in all 16 games with 14 starts…totaled 32 tackles (23 solo), 5.5 sacks for 33.5 yards and a forced fumble…started his first NFL game and totaled one solo stop vs. Kansas City (9/9)…started and finished with a season-high 2.0 sacks for 23 yards vs. QB Jake Delhomme and four total tackles and a forced fumble at Carolina (9/16)…added another sack to his rookie total by downing QB Peyton Manning, along with three solo stops, vs. Indianapolis (9/23)…registered his third consecutive game with a sack, taking down QB Joey Harrington at Atlanta (9/30)…earned NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month in September for his efforts…recorded a season-high five total tackles and his fifth sack of the season by taking down QB Josh McCown at Oakland (11/4)…registered a half-sack vs. Tampa Bay (12/9).
2008 (Houston 14/12): Played in 14 games with 12 starts…registered 24 total tackles, one sack, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery…started at defensive tackle in the season opener at Pittsburgh (9/7)…started and posted three total tackles at Tennessee (9/21)…started and registered three solo tackles at Jacksonville (9/28)…totaled one tackle vs. Indianapolis (10/5)…recorded one assist vs. Miami (10/12)…started and posted one solo tackle vs. Detroit (10/19)…started vs. Cincinnati (10/26) and recovered the first fumble of his career after DE Mario Williams forced the ball out of Bengals QB Ryan Fitzpatrick's hands in the third quarter…started and registered two total tackles at Minnesota (11/2)…inactive vs. Baltimore (11/9) and at Indianapolis (11/16)…returned to the starting lineup at Cleveland (11/23)…started and posted three solo tackles on Monday Night Football vs. Jacksonville (12/1)…started and registered one solo tackle and one assist at Green Bay (12/7)…started and recorded one solo tackle vs. Tennessee (12/14) and posted the first pass defensed of his career…started and recorded five total tackles, including his first sack of the season when he tackled Oakland QB JaMarcus Russell for a 13-yard loss in the fourth quarter, at Oakland (12/21)…also forced a fumble on the sack that was his first forced fumble of the season and the second of his career…started and registered two total tackles and one pass defensed vs. Chicago (12/28).
Played in 48 games at Louisville, starting 24 times…finished with 121 tackles (68 solos), 10.5 sacks for -42 yards and 23 stops for losses totaling 81 yards…the youngest athlete to appear in a collegiate game in 2003 at age 16…15 tackles behind the line of scrimmage in 2006 tied Michael Josiah (2001) and Ted Washington (1990) for 11th place on the school's season record list…unanimous All-Big East Conference first-team choice in 2006…recorded a career-high 58 tackles (38 solos) and ranked second on the team with eight sacks and 15 stops for losses…also caused three fumbles...graduated with a degree in psychology.
Selected by the Houston Texans in first round (10th overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft…signed by the Texans July 27, 2007.
Visited Nigeria along with other NFL players in the spring of 2008 to donate medical supplies and hand out scholarships…attended Robert E. Lee (Huntsville, Ala.) High School…took up football as a sophomore…started 13 games on the defensive line as a 13-year old and played both ways, earning honorable mention all-state honors as a junior…a three-year letter winner, he logged 60 tackles and nine sacks, picking up first-team all state honors on both sides of the ball as a senior…born in Anambra, Nigeria and moved to the United States as a preteen…tested into the ninth grade as a 12-year-old when his family moved to Huntsville from Nigeria.
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